From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bus_id collisions
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:38:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93B2DBD6-0E5F-485F-A785-25328271AF2D@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164091760.5597.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:49 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
>> Oh, that's a very annoying bus id, but I guess it's legal.
>>
>> I'll poke around and see if I can make it bigger. You don't want it
>> bigger for static 'struct device' types, right?
>
> Don't bother too much if it's complicated. I'm trying other options as
> well, like possibly using the Open Firmware "phandle" (sort of object
> ID) which is only 32 bits, provided I can get the embedded folks to
> agree to have one at all...
Hopefully, we will not complain too much. I can't imagine an extra
32-bits for the two dozen or so nodes we have in a embedded tree is
going to cause any heart burn.
- k
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-22 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-21 4:02 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-21 6:13 ` David Miller
2006-11-21 6:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-21 6:41 ` Greg KH
2006-11-21 6:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-22 4:38 ` Kumar Gala [this message]
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