On 5/7/2014 3:52 PM, Frank Rowand wrote: > On 5/7/2014 2:48 PM, Rob Herring wrote: >> From: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> This series fixes the device naming collisions that can occur with >> nultiple devices having the same name and non-translatable unit >> addresses. This issue was raised in this thread[1]. I intend to merge >> this regardless of whether or not some hierarchy in sysfs is created. >> That is really a separate issue independent of these fixes. >> >> I found and fix a couple of other issues in the process of testing the >> fix. >> >> Rob >> >> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/23/312 >> >> Rob Herring (4): >> of/selftest: add testcase for nodes with same name and address >> of/platform: return error on of_platform_device_create_pdata failure >> of/platform: fix device naming for non-translatable addresses >> of: kill off of_can_translate_address > > My opinion is that this approach is not a good approach to solving the > problem. It is papering over a symptom, instead of dealing with the > root cause. > > But despite my opinion, you can add to patches 2-4 (I did not test > the self-test added in patch 1): > > Tested-by: frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > The patches resolve the name conflict originally reported for the > qcomm PMIC, tested on 3.15-rc1, with a bunch of out of tree > patches. And you can add to the 4 patches: Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -Frank -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
