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From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Use virtio device index to generate port
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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:24:40 +0530
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On (Mon) 11 Feb 2013 [14:12:52], Sjur Br=E6ndeland wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> wrote:
> =

> > On (Thu) 17 Jan 2013 [13:23:17], sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com wrote:
> > > From: Sjur Br=E6ndeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
> > >
> > > Use virtio device index for creating unique device port names.
> > > Current index allocation in virtio is based on a monotonically
> > > increasing variable "index". A better handling of this is to
> > > use device index which is allocated by ida.
> >
> > This should be fine.  I'm wondering, though, if there's something else
> > you need from the naming scheme (esp. considering the next patch)?
> =

> This current patch solves the most critical issue - that the device name
> changes for every modem reboot. This is a show-stopper for me. So it would
> be
> great if this patch could go upstream. The other problem that device name
> is non-deterministic is currently only a theoretical problem as we have
> only one
> remoteproc device.

OK - I've no problem with the patch.

		Amit