Re: [PATCH 3/4] of/platform: fix device naming for non-translatable addresses

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 08 May 2014 07:55:06 Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 May 2014 16:48:17 Rob Herring wrote:
> >> From: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Using non-translatable addresses in platform device names is wrong
> >> because they may not be globally unique. Just use the default naming with
> >> a global index if the address cannot be translated instead.
> >>
> >> of_can_translate_address has the same checks as of_translate_address, so
> >> we can remove it here as well.
> >
> > Have you checked that this doesn't break platforms using clkdev lookup
> > based on names with local addresses? It's quite possible that nobody
> > does that, but it would be good to have someone confirm it.
> 
> I had not, but now I have. There don't appear to be any cases of that.

Ok, thanks for checking.

	Arnd
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