From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: serial8250_init and platform_device
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:41:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050201084117.GA22229@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050120201059.I13242@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:10:59PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:50:58AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:38:45PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > >
> > > Greg - the name is constructed from "name" + "id num" thusly:
> > >
> > > serial8250
> > > serial82500
> > > serial82501
> > > serial82502
> > >
> > > When "name" ends in a number, it gets rather confusing. Can we have
> > > an optional delimiter in there when we append the ID number, maybe
> > > something like a '.' or ':' ?
> >
> > Sure, that's fine with me. Someone send me a patch :)
>
> Like this?
> -
>
> Separate platform device name from platform device number such that
> names ending with numbers aren't confusing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Looks good to me, applied.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-01 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-20 7:14 serial8250_init and platform_device Kumar Gala
2005-01-20 11:43 ` Russell King
2005-01-20 15:23 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-20 15:44 ` Russell King
2005-01-20 19:06 ` Kumar Gala
2005-01-20 19:38 ` Russell King
2005-01-20 19:50 ` Greg KH
2005-01-20 20:10 ` Russell King
2005-01-20 20:25 ` Kumar Gala
2005-02-01 8:41 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-01-20 20:26 ` Kumar Gala
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