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Message-ID: <20140524181014.GA4011@arch.cereza> Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 15:10:15 -0300 From: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...guardiasur.com.ar> To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org> Cc: devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] of: Ensure unique names without sacrificing determinism On 23 May 08:36 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > The way the driver core is implemented, every device using the same bus > type is required to have a unique name because a symlink to each device > is created in the appropriate /sys/bus/*/devices directory, and two > identical names causes a collision. > > The current code handles the requirement by using an globally > incremented counter that is appended to the device name. It works, but > it means any change to device registration will change the assigned > numbers. Instead, if we build up the name by using information from the > parent nodes, then it can be guaranteed to be unique without adding a > random number to the end of it. > > Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org> Tested-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...guardiasur.com.ar> -- Ezequiel Garcia, VanguardiaSur www.vanguardiasur.com.ar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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