[PATCH 2.6.23] ibmebus: Prevent bus_id collisions
Nathan Lynch
ntl at pobox.com
Thu Aug 30 04:12:32 EST 2007
Hi-
Joachim Fenkes wrote:
> Previously, ibmebus derived a device's bus_id from its location code. The
> location code is not guaranteed to be unique, so we might get bus_id
> collisions if two devices share the same location code. The OFDT full_name,
> however, is unique, so we use that instead.
This is a userspace-visible change, but I guess it's unavoidable.
Will anything break?
Also, I dislike this approach of duplicating the firmware device tree
path in sysfs. Are GX/ibmebus devices guaranteed to be children of
the same node in the OF device tree? If so, their unit addresses will
be unique, and therefore suitable values for bus_id. I believe this
is what the powerpc vio bus code does.
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