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FromKumar Gala <>
SubjectRe: bus_id collisions
DateTue, 21 Nov 2006 22:38:19 -0600
On Nov 21, 2006, at 12:49 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>
>> Oh, that's a very annoying bus id, but I guess it's legal.
>>
>> I'll poke around and see if I can make it bigger.  You don't want it
>> bigger for static 'struct device' types, right?
>
> Don't bother too much if it's complicated. I'm trying other options as
> well, like possibly using the Open Firmware "phandle" (sort of object
> ID) which is only 32 bits, provided I can get the embedded folks to
> agree to have one at all...

Hopefully, we will not complain too much.  I can't imagine an extra  
32-bits for the two dozen or so nodes we have in a embedded tree is  
going to cause any heart burn.

- k
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