On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Grant Likely <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2014 09:53:57 +0900, Grant Likely <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 May 2014 13:30:02 -0500, Rob Herring <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Grant Likely <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
[...]
>> > > Another way to handle it is to only add the suffix when a conflict
>> > > actually occurs. That requires checking first whether or not a name will
>> > > conflict and ammending it only when that happens. I don't know if that
>> > > can be done nicely. I'll take a look.
>> >
>> > That was my idea as well and to move to a local number so you have
>> > something like deviceA, deviceA.1, deviceB, deviceB.1 (maybe the
>> > number is always appended). Perhaps a random number instead so no one
>> > expects the names to be an ABI. ;)
>>
>> Another idea: how about fix the name to alwasy be the final component of
>> the path name, followed by phandle. Anything that doesn't have a phandle
>> can be assigned one at boot. That would guarantee uniqueness without the
>> cost of trying to find duplicates.
>>
>> for example:
>> uart@10043000:0012
>
> Yet another approach. How about this patch? If the unit address cannot
> be translated, then append the translated name of the parent.
I Ilke this, but...
> diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
> index 9c121819e813..e74fccbeb177 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
> @@ -74,12 +74,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_find_device_by_node);
> */
> void of_device_make_bus_id(struct device *dev)
> {
> - static atomic_t bus_no_reg_magic;
> struct device_node *node = dev->of_node;
> const __be32 *reg;
> u64 addr;
> - const __be32 *addrp;
> - int magic;
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_DCR
> /*
> @@ -101,33 +98,26 @@ void of_device_make_bus_id(struct device *dev)
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_DCR */
>
> - /*
> - * For MMIO, get the physical address
> - */
> - reg = of_get_property(node, "reg", NULL);
> - if (reg) {
> - if (of_can_translate_address(node)) {
> + /* Construct the name, using parent nodes if necessary to ensure
> uniqueness */
> + while (node->parent) {
> + /*
> + * If the address can be translated, then that is as much
> + * uniqueness as we need. Make it the first component and
> return
> + */
> + reg = of_get_property(node, "reg", NULL);
> + if (reg && of_can_translate_address(node)) {
> addr = of_translate_address(node, reg);
This needs to be rebased on my fix and killing off of of_can_translate_address.
Rob
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