Re: [PATCH] driver core: Separate platform device name from platform device number

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

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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