Fix Firmware class name collision
Timur Tabi
timur at freescale.com
Wed Dec 5 10:45:48 EST 2007
Markus and Greg,
I've found a problem with this patch that probably affects a number of embedded
PowerPC systems:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119222892713518&w=2
The problem is that the device name for many PowerPC SoC devices is based on the
physical address. So we have stuff like this:
# ls -l /sys/devices/
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Nov 9 17:29 e0000000.soc8323
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 Nov 9 17:22 e0100000.qe
[snip]
# ls -l /sys/devices/e0000000.soc8323/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 9 17:34 e0000200.wdt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 9 17:34 e0000700.pic
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 9 17:34 e0001400.par_io
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 9 17:34 e0003000.i2c
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 9 17:34 e0004500.serial
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 9 17:34 e0004600.serial
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 9 17:34 e0030000.crypto
[snip]
With this patch, the device names in /sys/class/firmware look like this:
# ls -l /sys/class/firmware/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 9 17:37 firmware-e0102400.u
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Nov 9 17:22 timeout
In other words, the only thing you get is the first letter of the device name.
You used to get the whole name. The physical address obviously isn't very helpful.
The problem is the size of the string is only 20 characters:
static inline void fw_setup_device_id(struct device *f_dev, struct device *dev)
{
snprintf(f_dev->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "firmware-%s", dev->bus_id);
}
Now, there are two solutions:
1) Change the PowerPC device names from physical_address.device_name to
device_name.physical_address (so that e0102400.ucc becomes ucc.e0102400)
2) Change fw_setup_device_id() to something like this:
snprintf(f_dev->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "fw-%s", dev->bus_id);
which do you think is a better idea?
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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