On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 07:51:20PM +0300, Vitaly Bordug wrote: > Hi, Greg! > > While doing "platformization" for one of the Freescale SoC's, I have > discovered a serious drawback of the model - it prevents registering > driver with the same name.
That's not a "drawback" :) > For instance, cpm2 on either ppc82xx or ppc85xx is very flexible, and > its device fsl-cpm-scc could (and actually are) utilized in the > different drivers. > > Those devices will have different bus_id, but pdev->name fields are the > same for all the fsl-cpm-scc, only id is different there. Hence the > fsl-cpm-scc could be driver_register'ed only once, while it is required > several times. A driver is registered only once, but can be bound to multiple devices just fine, right? > Could you please suggest possible solutions for this situation? This is > relatively common case among freescale chips, so I guess inventing a > workaround is odd, and writing an additional shim to handle CPM device > multiplexing is odd either. I don't see the problem here. Are you looking at the new stuff in 2.6.15-rc1? thanks, greg k-h
