Platform device model drawback

Hi, Greg!

While doing "platformization" for one of the Freescale SoC's, I have discovered a serious drawback of the model - it prevents registering driver with the same name.

For instance, cpm2 on either ppc82xx or ppc85xx is very flexible, and its device fsl-cpm-scc could (and actually are) utilized in the different drivers.

Those devices will have different bus_id, but pdev->name fields are the same for all the fsl-cpm-scc, only id is different there. Hence the fsl-cpm-scc could be driver_register'ed only once, while it is required several times.

Could you please suggest possible solutions for this situation? This is relatively common case among freescale chips, so I guess inventing a workaround is odd, and writing an additional shim to handle CPM device multiplexing  is odd either.

TIA!
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Sincerely,
Vitaly