Re: serial8250_init and platform_device

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:10:59PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:50:58AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:38:45PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > > 
> > > Greg - the name is constructed from "name" + "id num" thusly:
> > > 
> > > 	serial8250
> > > 	serial82500
> > > 	serial82501
> > > 	serial82502
> > > 
> > > When "name" ends in a number, it gets rather confusing.  Can we have
> > > an optional delimiter in there when we append the ID number, maybe
> > > something like a '.' or ':' ?
> > 
> > Sure, that's fine with me.  Someone send me a patch :)
> 
> Like this?
> -
> 
> Separate platform device name from platform device number such that
> names ending with numbers aren't confusing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me, applied.

thanks,

greg k-h
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