Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: sram: Generate unique names for subpools

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Apr 18 2023 - 18:38:06 EST


On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 09:34:57AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> The current code will, if we do not specify unique labels
> for the SRAM subnodes, fail to register several nodes named
> the same.
>
> Example:
>
> sram@40020000 {
> (...)
> sram@0 {
> (...)
> };
> sram@1000 {
> (...)
> };
> };
>
> Since the child->name in both cases will be "sram" the
> gen_pool_create() will fail because the name is not unique.
> So let's use of_full_node_name() instead of child->name
> so the name is "sram@0" and "sram@1000" respectively.
>
> However if there are two or more SRAMs on the system
> with subnodes named the same (that exists on the U8500)
> then this again will not work. So catenate the top node
> name and the subnode full name to form a string that will
> always be unique.

Use the naming platform devices use which has the translated address.
How the addresses are defined should not affect the device name.

Rob