From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Platform device id
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 10:40:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070908104041.4d8d1a24@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070907205659.GA4357@khazad-dum.debian.net>
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:56:59 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On 9/7/07, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> > To go one step further, I am questioning the real value of this naming
> > exception for these "unique" platform devices. On top of the bugs I
> > mentioned above, it has potential for compatibility breakage: adding a
>
> Agreed. But the breakage might happen anyway, if you need to move
> attributes from foo.0 to foo.1. After that first time, userspace will learn
> to hunt down all foo.* after what it wants, but still...
Moving attributes from one device to another? This doesn't make any
sense to me, sorry. foo.0 and foo.1 represent different instances of
the same device type, they typically have the same attributes.
--
Jean Delvare
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-08 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-07 13:35 Platform device id Jean Delvare
2007-09-07 14:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-09-07 16:36 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-07 16:41 ` David Brownell
2007-09-07 21:00 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-09-07 21:41 ` David Brownell
2007-09-07 22:04 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-09-08 0:18 ` David Brownell
2007-09-08 3:50 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-09-08 8:55 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-10 22:52 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-09-11 7:43 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-11 13:44 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-09-11 14:05 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-07 20:56 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-09-08 8:40 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2007-09-10 22:45 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-09-08 13:30 ` Greg KH
2007-09-09 10:54 ` [PATCH] Make platform_device.id an int Jean Delvare
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