Timur Tabi wrote:
> 
> In other words, the only thing you get is the first letter of the device 
> name. 
> You used to get the whole name.  The physical address obviously isn't very 
> helpful.

The physical address certainly is useful when you have more than one 
device of the same name.

> Now, there are two solutions:
> 
> 1) Change the PowerPC device names from physical_address.device_name to 
> device_name.physical_address (so that e0102400.ucc becomes ucc.e0102400)

So then you'd get "firmware-ucc.e01024".  What if there's another ucc at 
  e0102480?  For devices with longer names, you'd have even less 
precision in the address.

-Scott
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