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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Separate platform device name from platform device number
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:03:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050325210357.D12715@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050325205603.GD4192@linux-sh.org>; from lethal@linux-sh.org on Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:56:03PM +0200

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:56:03PM +0200, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:25:08PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Eh?  How do you end up with "/sys/devices/platform/foobar0.0" for the
> > former case?  It has an ID of "-1", and not zero.  Your idea doesn't
> > make any sense.
> > 
> Yes, I missed the -1 part, so Kyle is correct.
> 
> It would be trivial to treat them both as foobar0 and have the
> registration succeed for whoever gets it first, but I could see that this
> would be problematic in the serial8250 case. On the other hand, this is
> then serial8250's problem.

Thank you for ignoring the other case of i82385 to justify your point
of view of it being just a single driver problem.

Maybe you can work out a patch to fix up this mess?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-25 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-10  0:34 [BK PATCH] Driver core and kobject updates for 2.6.11 Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34 ` [PATCH] Kobject: remove some unneeded exports Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34   ` [PATCH] Add 2.4.x cpufreq /proc and sysctl interface removal feature-removal-schedule Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34     ` [PATCH] cpufreq 2.4 interface removal schedule Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34       ` [PATCH] driver core: Separate platform device name from platform device number Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34         ` [PATCH] class core: export MAJOR/MINOR to the hotplug env Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34           ` [PATCH] block " Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34             ` [PATCH] class_simple: pass dev_t to the class core Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34               ` [PATCH] usb: class driver " Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                 ` [PATCH] i2c: " Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                   ` [PATCH] videodev: " Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                     ` [PATCH] driver core: clean driver unload Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                       ` [PATCH] Driver core: add "bus" symlink to class/block devices Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                         ` [PATCH] floppy.c: pass physical device to device registration Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                           ` [PATCH] kset: make ksets have a spinlock, and use that to lock their lists Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                             ` [PATCH] sysdev: make system_subsys static as no one else needs access to it Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                               ` [PATCH] kref: make kref_put return if this was the last put call Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                                 ` [PATCH] USB: move usb core to use class_simple instead of it's own class functions Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                                   ` [PATCH] kmap: remove usage of rwsem from kobj_map Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                                     ` [PATCH] sysdev: fix the name of the list of drivers to be a sane name Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                                       ` [PATCH] sysdev: remove the rwsem usage from this subsystem Greg KH
2005-03-10  0:34                                         ` [PATCH] class: add a semaphore to struct class, and use that instead of the subsystem rwsem Greg KH
2005-03-25 18:01         ` [PATCH] driver core: Separate platform device name from platform device number Paul Mundt
2005-03-25 18:10           ` Greg KH
2005-03-25 18:35             ` Paul Mundt
2005-03-25 19:38               ` Kyle Moffett
2005-03-25 19:58                 ` Paul Mundt
2005-03-25 20:17                   ` Kyle Moffett
2005-03-25 20:25                   ` Russell King
2005-03-25 20:56                     ` Paul Mundt
2005-03-25 21:03                       ` Russell King [this message]
2005-03-25 22:15                         ` Paul Mundt
2005-03-10  2:23     ` [PATCH] Add 2.4.x cpufreq /proc and sysctl interface removal feature-removal-schedule Dave Jones
2005-03-10  4:56     ` Dominik Brodowski

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