From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: 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: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:15:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050325221540.GE4192@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050325210357.D12715@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:03:57PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > 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.
>
I didn't ignore it, I said that this was useful for anything that had
device names ending in numbers. The above was just in reply to what you
had pointed out about the serial8250 behaviour. Thank you for missing the
point though.
> Maybe you can work out a patch to fix up this mess?
>
Yes, I'll hack something together in the morning.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-25 22:16 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
2005-03-25 22:15 ` Paul Mundt [this message]
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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