On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:28:00PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: > Scott Wood wrote: > >> The physical address certainly is useful when you have more than one >> device of the same name. > > What I meant was that the physical address isn't helpful by itself. > >> So then you'd get "firmware-ucc.e01024". What if there's another ucc at >> e0102480? For devices with longer names, you'd have even less precision >> in the address. > > Maybe we need to consider a more sophisticated algorithm, one that > guarantees that the device name in its entirety is preserved? Either that, > or replace the physical address with something shorter, like the offset to > the root node only? That way, ucc.e0102400 because just ucc.2400.
You should do something :) In the near future (2.6.26) there will not be a limit on the size of the file name, so we should not have this problem anymore. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
