Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:36:30 -0500 | From | Joel Schopp <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.23] ibmebus: Prevent bus_id collisions |
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> There are currently two GX devices, eHCA and eHEA, which both reside > beneath the root node - this is required by architecture for those > devices. Unless they invent a device called > "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", devices in the root note will have a > full_name of less than 31 chars. Even in that case, the truncation occurs > at the beginning, so the @xxx part that makes the nodes unique will stay > in place. >
OK, didn't realize it had to be beneath the root node, and that the truncation truncated the front and not the back. I would have done it differently, but this should work.
Acked-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
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