From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752544AbXIHIiw (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 04:38:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751424AbXIHIio (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 04:38:44 -0400 Received: from smtp-106-saturday.nerim.net ([62.4.16.106]:65221 "EHLO kraid.nerim.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751370AbXIHIin (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Sep 2007 04:38:43 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 10:40:41 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Greg KH , LKML , David Brownell Subject: Re: Platform device id Message-ID: <20070908104041.4d8d1a24@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20070907205659.GA4357@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20070907153559.17faf9d1@hyperion.delvare> <20070907205659.GA4357@khazad-dum.debian.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.5 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:56:59 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On 9/7/07, Jean Delvare wrote: > > To go one step further, I am questioning the real value of this naming > > exception for these "unique" platform devices. On top of the bugs I > > mentioned above, it has potential for compatibility breakage: adding a > > Agreed. But the breakage might happen anyway, if you need to move > attributes from foo.0 to foo.1. After that first time, userspace will learn > to hunt down all foo.* after what it wants, but still... Moving attributes from one device to another? This doesn't make any sense to me, sorry. foo.0 and foo.1 represent different instances of the same device type, they typically have the same attributes. -- Jean Delvare