Re: Platform device matching

[Kenn Humborg]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 12:00:50AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:05:11PM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> > I'm looking at the code for binding platform devices with drivers.  
> > However, platform_match() doesn't seem to agree with its kerneldoc
> > comment:
> 
> The code is correct as stands.  The documentation is behind times.  All
> platform devices are "<name><instance-number>" so it's correct that the
> "floppy" driver matches "floppy0" and "floppy1" etc.

Forgive me if I am being dense, but I still don't see how that works.  

The current code:

   return (strncmp(pdev->name, drv->name, BUS_ID_SIZE) == 0);

will only return 1 if pdev->name and drv->name are _identical_ for the 
first 20 bytes.  Which "floppy" and "floppy0" are not.

Could it be that all current platform devices are initially named
as "<name>" and the instance number is only appended after matching
has been done?

Later,
Kenn


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