On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 03:37:22PM +0300, Konstantin Aladyshev wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to defend a solution with aliases. I'm not assuming you defend it, just telling you that, yeah, design of some solutions in the user space WRT HW finding and identification is broken. And OF alias approach was maybe a mistake to work around that. > It is just there is existing code that relies on fixed i2c bus > numbers, and I was just trying to understand if it can be ported to > x86 easily. If you do it correctly from day 1, there porting will not be needed *at all* independently on the architecture (it will work even on legacy non-OF/non-ACPI platforms as good as on newest ones). That's my point. > Apparently it can't. It can't be done in current code base, but one may patch the kernel and the ACPI tables to achieve that. I do not think it's a practical solution, though. > Thanks for the answer! You're welcome! -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
