Re: Platform device id

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Sat, 08 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:56:59 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On 9/7/07, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> 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.

Yeah, I came across that need in an attempt to fix an issue in thinkpad-acpi
which will be fixed in another way (separate modules, or separate platform
devices/platform drivers in the same module).  I must have been
sleep-deprieved and in a weird mind state of sorts (and not in a nice way)
to come up with it.

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