[PATCH v10 05/18] OMAP2,3 DSS2 Change driver name to omap_display

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 02:10:26PM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 05:36 -0600, Cousson, Benoit wrote:
> > Cannot you use a device hierarchy then to do that?
> >   omap_dss/core
> >   omap_dss/dsi
> >   omap_dss/venc
> > 
> > This is moreover the way the HW is done.
> 
> Hmm, how would that work? The devices are platform devices, and they
> have a unique global name, which is used to match the driver for the
> device.

And not forgetting that '/' is not permitted in device or driver names.