Re: [PATCH resend v5 1/3] i2c: Allow overriding dev_name through board_info

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Thu Oct 26 2017 - 16:29:42 EST


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:41:19AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> For devices not instantiated through ACPI the i2c-client's device-name
> gets set to <busnr>-<addr> by default, e.g. "0-0022" this means that
> the device-name is dependent on the order in which the i2c-busses are
> enumerated.
>
> In some cases having a predictable constant device-name is desirable,
> for example on non device-tree platforms the link between a regulator
> and its consumers is specified by the platform code by setting
> regulator_init_data.consumers. This array identifies the regulator's
> consumers by dev_name and supply(-name). Which requires a constant
> dev_name.
>
> This commit adds a dev_name field to i2c_board_info allowing
> platform code to set a contstant dev_name so that the device can
> be identified by its dev_name in other platform code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>

So, the live discussion at ELCE17 between broonie, Andy, and me came to
a good end for you ;)

Applied to for-next, thanks!

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