[PATCH 2.6.23] ibmebus: Prevent bus_id collisions
Joachim Fenkes
FENKES at de.ibm.com
Sat Sep 1 00:34:51 EST 2007
Hi, Arnd,
> The whole logic of dynamically adding and removing device is rather
bogus,
> and it prevents autoloading of device drivers. of_platform_make_bus_id
> is the function that is responsible for creating unique names over
there.
The plaintiff makes a valid point. How about a staging approach: We put
the patch as it is now into 2.6.23 so the problem is fixed, and I'll post
a "nice" version with autoloading support and a generic of_make_bus_id
function for 2.6.24. Agree?
Regards,
Joachim
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