Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261836AbVCYWQl (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:16:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261843AbVCYWQk (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:16:40 -0500 Received: from smtp1.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.34]:60342 "EHLO smtp1.pp.htv.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261836AbVCYWPl (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:15:41 -0500 Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:15:40 +0200 From: Paul Mundt To: Kyle Moffett , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Separate platform device name from platform device number Message-ID: <20050325221540.GE4192@linux-sh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Mundt , Kyle Moffett , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1110414879646@kroah.com> <11104148792069@kroah.com> <20050325180136.GA4192@linux-sh.org> <20050325181014.GA13436@kroah.com> <20050325183534.GB4192@linux-sh.org> <5c0804da3486a6e735a46220d73c9637@mac.com> <20050325195826.GC4192@linux-sh.org> <20050325202508.A12715@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050325205603.GD4192@linux-sh.org> <20050325210357.D12715@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="T6xhMxlHU34Bk0ad" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050325210357.D12715@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1470 Lines: 43 --T6xhMxlHU34Bk0ad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:03:57PM +0000, 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 th= is > > would be problematic in the serial8250 case. On the other hand, this is > > then serial8250's problem. >=20 > Thank you for ignoring the other case of i82385 to justify your point > of view of it being just a single driver problem. >=20 I didn't ignore it, I said that this was useful for anything that had device names ending in numbers. The above was just in reply to what you had pointed out about the serial8250 behaviour. Thank you for missing the point though. > Maybe you can work out a patch to fix up this mess? >=20 Yes, I'll hack something together in the morning. --T6xhMxlHU34Bk0ad Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCRI2M1K+teJFxZ9wRAu8qAJwIjF4a2ElXyPRLJdGAK6zghQ0LnQCeLQu9 TNvHlm9NJFSHxJFRSwSuqxA= =OcCf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T6xhMxlHU34Bk0ad-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/