Re: bus_id collisions

[David Miller]

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:02:16 +1100

> This has caused me some trouble with of_platform devices, which are
> sort-of platform devices but linked to the Open Firmware device-tree, as
> I generate their names based on the nodes in the tree which need not be
> unique as long as they are unique under a given parent.
> 
> I've worked around it, but I though the comment might need to be
> clarified.

BTW Ben, on sparc64 for of devices I use "%08x" and the PROM
node ID as the bus_id[] to deal with this.
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