On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:03:57PM +, Russell King wrote:
> > 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 serial8
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:56:03PM +0200, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:25:08PM +, 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.
> >
> Y
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:25:08PM +, 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 tr
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:58:26PM +0200, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 02:38:22PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> > So how would you tell the difference between the following?
> > device = "foobar0"
> > id = -1
> > path = "/sys/devices/platform/foobar0"
> > versus
> > de
On Mar 25, 2005, at 14:58, Paul Mundt wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 02:38:22PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
So how would you tell the difference between the following?
device = "foobar0"
id = -1
path = "/sys/devices/platform/foobar0"
versus
device = "foobar"
i
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 02:38:22PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> So how would you tell the difference between the following?
> device = "foobar0"
> id = -1
> path = "/sys/devices/platform/foobar0"
> versus
> device = "foobar"
> id = 0
> path = "/sys/devices/platfo
On Mar 25, 2005, at 13:35, Paul Mundt wrote:
Anything that expects that it can open a
/sys/devices/platform/
path. I have a few applications like this, I have no reason to doubt
that
others do too. I don't see any reason to go out of the way to break
this
convention if the end of the device name
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:10:14AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > This might make sense for devices that end in numbers, but does it really
> > make sense for devices that don't?
>
> Then fix those drivers to not put the number in there if they don't have
> one :)
>
But they do have non -1 ids, the de
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:01:36PM +0200, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:34:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > [PATCH] driver core: Separate platform device name from platform device
> > number
> >
> > Separate platform device name from platform device number such that
> > names endin
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:34:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> [PATCH] driver core: Separate platform device name from platform device number
>
> Separate platform device name from platform device number such that
> names ending with numbers aren't confusing.
>
This might make sense for devices that
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