From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] driver: allow register device with specific id
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:55:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100917135556.GB21110@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100917135414.GG1473@pengutronix.de>
On 15:54 Fri 17 Sep , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:50:37PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > On 15:45 Fri 17 Sep , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > Hi J,
> > >
> > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 01:27:37PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > > if you specify id = 0 the next available id will be taken
> > > > otherwise fail if already registered
> > >
> > > I think we need a better solution here. Being able to specify an id
> > > is a good idea in general, but since 0 is a valid id we should be able
> > > to specify exactly this id aswell.
> > > An idea is to use -1 for a dynamic id, but of course this needs changes
> > > to all existing devices.
> > I prefer to do it a second step
> > in this case
>
> I prefer doing it first, because it makes sure the problem is getting
> solved.
I prefer to do a second incremental patch
Best Regards,
J.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-12 11:27 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-12 11:27 ` [PATCH 2/4] device: fix dev_name Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-12 11:27 ` [PATCH 3/4] amba-pl011: probe fail if we can get the clock Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-12 11:38 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-17 13:52 ` Sascha Hauer
2010-09-17 13:51 ` Sascha Hauer
2010-09-17 13:54 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-12 11:27 ` [PATCH 4/4] stm8815: fix the uart device clock match Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-17 13:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] driver: allow register device with specific id Sascha Hauer
2010-09-17 13:50 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2010-09-17 13:54 ` Sascha Hauer
2010-09-17 13:55 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
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