On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:45:59PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

Sure, technically nothing prevents this. But, QE specs names
SPIs by these ids. Plus, from the kernel side spi name will be
not pretty, it will be spi1216.1. Reg value making little sense
to the userspace (or kernel-side SPI layer). Still want get
rid of device-id?

Naming devices for human consumption is a more general problem than
device-id addresses; I'd like to see a standard "label" property added to
the device tree spec that software could use to present a human-friendly
label that corresponds to markings on the case, position on the board,
etc.

-Scott