On 23 May 08:36 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > The way the driver core is implemented, every device using the same bus > type is required to have a unique name because a symlink to each device > is created in the appropriate /sys/bus/*/devices directory, and two > identical names causes a collision. > > The current code handles the requirement by using an globally > incremented counter that is appended to the device name. It works, but > it means any change to device registration will change the assigned > numbers. Instead, if we build up the name by using information from the > parent nodes, then it can be guaranteed to be unique without adding a > random number to the end of it. > > Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.lik...@linaro.org>
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