Segher Boessenkool wrote: > Well, yes, your suggested code doesn't allow punctuation either; but > that wasn't my point, it doesn't allow numbers in names. Why don't > you just parse a number from the end?
Oh, you mean start at the end and go backwards? Hmmm, I guess I could do that. > The only thing a platform should ever use aliases for is if it needs > to (for whatever purpose) find a specific device, that it cannot > identify otherwise (via "reg", ...). And then that platform code > should look up the device by the alias, not look up the alias by the > device -- there is no 1-1 mapping from device to alias! Hmmm, I hadn't through about that. I guess this patch isn't such a great idea after all. I rescind it. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
