Re: [PATCH] regulator: Allow consumer supplies to be set up with dev_name()

[Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:11:46PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:

> I just wonder if we need to suggest subsystem maintainers make sure that
> their
> device names are suitably unique and identifiable?  For example, i2c device
> tend to have names like 0-0032.  Perhaps we need something to identify
> that they
> are indeed i2c devices?

Either that or if it becomes a problem we add the ability to match on
bus type as well - since bus type already exists it'd probably be better
to go down that road rather than cause userspace-visible changes.  I've
not looked in sufficient detail to confirm that this would cover
everything but I believe it should.

> For that matter, is there anything other than blind luck preventing two
> regulator
> consumers having the same dev_name?

Due to sysfs requirements I think we should be safe with the addition of
bus type matching but like I say I may be missing something.