On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And why not fix the bad assumption in OpenSwitch instead and kill the > generic problem for every kind of adapter? Limiting yourself to a > band-aid for i2c-mux adapters seems short-sighted and not very helpful > for the next victim of this OpenSwitch problem... > > Note that you do not need two muxing levels to get duplicate names like > this, it's enough with two parallel multiplexers on the root adapter. Or, > of course, two AT91 adapters (or similar, i.e. with a fixed name). If I thought that OpenSwitch's expectation of Linux to name unique adapters uniquely, I would push for a change in OpenSwitch. I personally think Linux's naming convention is a short-sighted and insufficient which is why I came to Linux first. I don't want a short-sighted band-aid which is why I asked the original question. I'll try elsewhere for a solution... Regards, Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
