On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 22:39 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 05:14:29PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 14:40 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:28:00PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > > > Scott Wood wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> The phy
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 05:14:29PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 14:40 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > 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
>
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 14:40 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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'
Greg KH wrote:
> 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.
In that case, I won't worry about it. I would have preferred 2.6.25, since I
have code going into 2.6.25 that is affected by the current limit.
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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"
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 long
Timur Tabi wrote:
>
> In other words, the only thing you get is the first letter of the device
> name.
> You used to get the whole name. The physical address obviously isn't very
> helpful.
The physical address certainly is useful when you have more than one
device of the same name.
> Now,
