Fix Firmware class name collision
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Dec 5 10:52:21 EST 2007
Timur Tabi wrote:
>
> 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 physical address certainly is useful when you have more than one
device of the same name.
> 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)
So then you'd get "firmware-ucc.e01024". What if there's another ucc at
e0102480? For devices with longer names, you'd have even less
precision in the address.
-Scott
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