On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 03:35:59PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Greg, all, > > While platform_device.id is a u32, platform_device_add() handles "-1" as > a special id value. This has potential for confusion and bugs. One such > bug was reported to me by David Brownell: > > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/i2c/2007-September/001787.html > > And since then I've found two other drivers affected (uartlite and > i2c-pxa). > > Could we at least make platform_device.id an int so as to clear up the > confusion? I doubt that the id will ever be a large number anyway.
Sure, that's fine by me, feel free to send a patch. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
