Re: Platform device id

[Jean Delvare]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:56:59 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On 9/7/07, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > To go one step further, I am questioning the real value of this naming
> > exception for these "unique" platform devices. On top of the bugs I
> > mentioned above, it has potential for compatibility breakage: adding a
> 
> Agreed.  But the breakage might happen anyway, if you need to move
> attributes from foo.0 to foo.1.  After that first time, userspace will learn
> to hunt down all foo.* after what it wants, but still...

Moving attributes from one device to another? This doesn't make any
sense to me, sorry. foo.0 and foo.1 represent different instances of
the same device type, they typically have the same attributes.

-- 
Jean Delvare
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