linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.23] ibmebus: Prevent bus

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Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:36:30 -0500
From:	Joel Schopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>
To:	Joachim Fenkes <FENKES@...ibm.com>
CC:	Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com>, Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@...ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LinuxPPC-Dev <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <pmac@....ibm.com>,
	Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Q Klein <tklein@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.23] ibmebus: Prevent bus_id collisions

> There are currently two GX devices, eHCA and eHEA, which both reside 
> beneath the root node - this is required by architecture for those 
> devices. Unless they invent a device called 
> "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", devices in the root note will have a 
> full_name of less than 31 chars. Even in that case, the truncation occurs 
> at the beginning, so the @xxx part that makes the nodes unique will stay 
> in place.
> 

OK, didn't realize it had to be beneath the root node, and that the 
truncation truncated the front and not the back.  I would have done it 
differently, but this should work.

Acked-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>

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