Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix missing misc nodes

[One Thousand Gnomes]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:56:31 -0500
Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 02:27:23 -0300, Lucas De Marchi said:
> 
> > These patches are not intended for merging as is... clearly we have at least
> > one problem: fram's minor is clashing with logibm's. I don't know what to do
> > here.
> 
> They both look like obscure devices to me. Are there any architectures where
> both devices could conceivably exist on the same system at the same time?
> If not, it may not be a problem at all...

Which is how we got into multiple previous messes with device clashes.
Better to do it right, even better would be to fix the need for them to
be static nodes in the first place.

Alan
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