>>> On 08.12.10 at 01:36, Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 22:58 +0800, Jan Beulich wrote: >> Rather than trying to create duplicate platform devices, check for >> duplication up front. >> >> Generally the kernel doesn't require uniqueness of the source IDs >> other than for obtaining unique platform device names (and making log >> message non-ambiguous) - therefore, it would be possible to simply >> replace eventual duplicate IDs with kernel assigned ones. > > Do you have a machine with duplicated source ID in HEST? Yes (all IDs are identical), albeit one for which I'm not sure it (or its BIOS) are really fully production level. It's in any case quite a bit older than the code in Linux. Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
