On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:59:41AM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > On 12-03-28 11:27 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > static struct platform_device em_x270_gps_userspace_consumer = { > .name = "reg-userspace-consumer", > .id = 0, > static struct platform_device em_x270_gprs_userspace_consumer = { > .name = "reg-userspace-consumer", > .id = 1, > Note that the existing names currently don't incorporate the .id > field as a suffix, and so never were unique. No, this is just a basic part of how platform devices work - the device name is always the same and if you've got more than one of them they get different .ids. dev_name() returns name.id, or just name if id is set to -1 indicating that there's onyl one device of a given type.
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