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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] driver core: Separate platform device name from platform device number
    On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:34:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
    > [PATCH] driver core: Separate platform device name from platform device number
    >
    > Separate platform device name from platform device number such that
    > names ending with numbers aren't confusing.
    >
    This might make sense for devices that end in numbers, but does it really
    make sense for devices that don't? I don't really see how having
    something like randomfb.0 is intuitive, this may make sense for things
    like serial8250 where another 0 would be misleading without some form of
    delimiter, but those are the corner cases and should be treated as such.

    It's a bit irritating to have to constantly update userspace code that is
    acting under the false pretense that there is some sort of consistent
    naming scheme in place that won't change every time some new corner case
    crops up.

    (And yes, I should have brought this up when the patch was posted, but I
    didn't see it until _after_ being bit by this change).
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