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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
