On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:46:48AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [120213 10:27]: > > 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. > > Matt, care to refresh your original patch using some other number so > we can apply it as a regression fix for the -rc series while the > long term solution is being discussed? > > Just use some random number for now with a comment, 42? Will do, I'll post an update with this approach. -Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
