[PATCH 1/4] amba: add name based matching

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Philippe Langlais wrote:
> From: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent at stericsson.com>
> 
> Some peripherals on the DBx500 family of SoCs have changes in their
> functionality and registers between different variants in the family but
> retain the same AMBA peripheral ID, making it impossible to distinguish
> between them in AMBA drivers with the current AMBA id_table.
> 
> To support this, add a name parameter to the amba_device and the amba_id
> and allow name based matching as a second level filter after the
> periphid match.

I really hate the idea of matching AMBA stuff by name.  Isn't there any
other solution to this?