Re: Strange location and name for platform devices whendevice-tree is used.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sat Nov 02 2013 - 16:22:39 EST


On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 08:58 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Just loop through all the platform devices before registering it to
> determine if you need to do this, the platform code can do this just
> fine. If you try to register a duplicate name with the driver core,
> odds are it will complain loudly, so don't do that.

But that loop + registration is racy ... oh well, we might do something
better with Neil's idea of labels instead.

Ben.


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