Re: [PATCH/RFC] platform: Add support for automatic device IDs

2012-07-27 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Greg, On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:21:55 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:46:25PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Right now we have support for explicit platform device IDs, as well as > > ID-less platform devices when a given device type can only have one > > instance. Ho

Re: [PATCH/RFC] platform: Add support for automatic device IDs

2012-07-27 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:46:25PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Right now we have support for explicit platform device IDs, as well as > ID-less platform devices when a given device type can only have one > instance. However there are cases where multiple instances of a device > type can exist, and

[PATCH/RFC] platform: Add support for automatic device IDs

2012-07-27 Thread Jean Delvare
Right now we have support for explicit platform device IDs, as well as ID-less platform devices when a given device type can only have one instance. However there are cases where multiple instances of a device type can exist, and their IDs aren't (and can't be) known in advance and do not matter. I