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DateMon, 20 Nov 2006 22:13:29 -0800 (PST)
SubjectRe: bus_id collisions
FromDavid Miller <>
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:02:16 +1100

> This has caused me some trouble with of_platform devices, which are
> sort-of platform devices but linked to the Open Firmware device-tree, as
> I generate their names based on the nodes in the tree which need not be
> unique as long as they are unique under a given parent.
> 
> I've worked around it, but I though the comment might need to be
> clarified.

BTW Ben, on sparc64 for of devices I use "%08x" and the PROM
node ID as the bus_id[] to deal with this.
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