On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:14:10AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [120213 09:31]: > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:52:34AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > Can't we just leave out the .id and have it automatically assigned? It'd be nice but... > > Unfortunately, there's no such infrastructure in the driver model. > Hmm OK, -1 seems to be just used for name in platform_device_add(). -1 is a valid ID also, it means "there's only one of these things so don't display a number". Which is sad but there we are. I'm at ELC/ABS so I might try and find Greg in person here to see if we can come up with something better, it seems like this is something the core ought to be able to help with in much the same way that the USB stuff can.
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