On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 11:14 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Are you happy with "iocs", "attrib" and "datacs" for the names?
> 
> Of the platforms with an smc91x platform_device (according to grep) only
> 2 (lubbock, neponset) out of the 18 have memory resources other than the
> iocs (full list of platforms is at the end, after the patch)
> 
> So for the sake of the least intrusive patch I think for the main iocs
> I'll call _byname and fallback on mem resource number 0 if no named iocs
> resource exists. attrib and datacs must be explicitly named. This allows
> most of the board ports to remain unchanged.

Sensible.

> I also noticed that the name propagates into /proc/iomem etc
>       # cat /proc/iomem
>       [...]
>       10000000-10000003 : datacs
>         10000000-10000003 : smc91x
> so perhaps smc91x-datacs -attrib -iocs might be more appropriate names?

Probably, although "iocs" is rather criptic for someone not familiar 
with the chip.  What about "smc91x-regs", "smc91x-attrib" and 
"smc91x-data32" ?


Nicolas
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