cdev name generation

[Sascha Hauer]

Hi Marc,

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:04:17PM +1100, Marc Reilly wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
> 
> Do you mean something like this attached patch?

Yes

> I preferred having the possibilty for assigning the id, so that boards can have
> some expectations of what the device name will be.

Generally a good idea, but how do you want to pass previd to the drivers
using it? via platform_data? I haven't looked into it to see if this
works well.

Sascha


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