On Fri, 23 May 2014 16:07:08 +0200, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday 23 May 2014 08:36:09 Grant Likely wrote:
> > There is now a way to ensure all platform devices get a unique name when
> > populated from the device tree, and the DCR_NATIVE code path is broken
> > anyway. PowerPC Cell (PS3) is the only platform that actually uses this
> > path.  Most likely nobody will notice if it is killed. Remove the code
> > and associated ugly #ifdef.
> > 
> > The user-visible impact of this patch is that any DCR device on Cell
> > will get a new name in the /sys/devices hierarchy.
> 
> Isn't this used on all ppc440+ as well?

Yes, but the 440 code path is broken so that it always uses the default
name instead. Therefore only Cell is affected.

g.
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