Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver core: Separate platform device name from platform device number | Date | Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:38:22 -0500 |
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On Mar 25, 2005, at 13:35, Paul Mundt wrote: > Anything that expects that it can open a > /sys/devices/platform/<device><id> > path. I have a few applications like this, I have no reason to doubt > that > others do too. I don't see any reason to go out of the way to break > this > convention if the end of the device name is not a number.
So how would you tell the difference between the following? device = "foobar0" id = -1 path = "/sys/devices/platform/foobar0" versus device = "foobar" id = 0 path = "/sys/devices/platform/foobar0"
I'll agree that having two drivers named like this is bad, but how is a userspace application given a path like "/sys/devices/platform/foobar0" supposed to figure out which one it is. It's not as nice to add the extra period, but otherwise you end up with a lot of _extra_ special cases in both the kernel _and_ applications, which helps nobody.
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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