On Friday 31 August 2007, Joachim Fenkes wrote:
> > The whole logic of dynamically adding and removing device is rather
> bogus,
> > and it prevents autoloading of device drivers. of_platform_make_bus_id
> > is the function that is responsible for creating unique names over
> there.
>
> The plaintiff makes a valid point. How about a staging approach: We put
> the patch as it is now into 2.6.23 so the problem is fixed, and I'll post
> a "nice" version with autoloading support and a generic of_make_bus_id
> function for 2.6.24. Agree?
Ok, sounds fair. Can you make sure that the resulting bus_id is the same
for the final version then?
Arnd <><
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