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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