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

[Paul Mundt]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:03:57PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > It would be trivial to treat them both as foobar0 and have the
> > registration succeed for whoever gets it first, but I could see that this
> > would be problematic in the serial8250 case. On the other hand, this is
> > then serial8250's problem.
> 
> Thank you for ignoring the other case of i82385 to justify your point
> of view of it being just a single driver problem.
> 
I didn't ignore it, I said that this was useful for anything that had
device names ending in numbers. The above was just in reply to what you
had pointed out about the serial8250 behaviour. Thank you for missing the
point though.

> Maybe you can work out a patch to fix up this mess?
> 
Yes, I'll hack something together in the morning.

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