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SubjectRe: [PATCH] PCI / OF linkage in sysfs
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> Maybe just "platform-data" or something. But if "devspec" has magic 
> meaning on a Mac, and since this would be inherently platform-specific
> _anyway_, I don't actually see any reason to not use "devspec".

No, no magic. Could have been "OF_path" but uppercase are ugly :)

> On some platforms, we might have multiple different entries (eg on a PC we
> might have pointers to ACPI data, to PnP data and to EFI data, all at the
> same time. I hope we never will, but maybe there would be reason for it).
> That would argue _against_ a "generic" name like "platform", and for
> something that is actually very much specific to the kind of data it
> points to (eg "of-data" rather than "platform-data").

Maybe anything prefixed by "platform" ? like "platform-fwpath" for OF
spec, etc...

> End result: I don't think we much care about the name. Whatever makes you
> happy. As long as the source code is clean and something like
> "pcibios_add_platform_entries()" at least makes that come true.

Ok. I dislike #ifdef's too indeed. I was probably too lazy to add the
empty inline to all archs :) I'll do a new patch.

Ben.


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