Donald Becker wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > > On a related note, there are a handful of drivers that register ioports
> > > (and IRQ) with the name dev->name (e.g. eth0) as opposed to a more
> > > meaningful model name (e.g. "3c503/16"). And some drivers do one for
> ...
> > For ISA, it's more informative. For PCI, it's less informative because
> > the requested resource appears in /proc/ioports underneath the parent
> > PCI device.
>
> Using dev->name is much more meaningful.
> I switched over all of my drivers to use dev->name a few years ago.
I noticed while writing some hashed device lookup-by-name code that
names can be changed at run time. Would that affect the decision
any?
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