On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:35:29AM -0700, Turquette, Mike wrote:

> I'm happy for the core to concatenate the strings when a struct device
> *dev is passed in.  However the reason I dropped this in the first
> place is that I have some ideas on providing something like clk_get
> directly from the common clk core and I hadn't figured out all of the
> details yet.  For now we can handle the string concatenation in the
> core and figure out those tricky details if/when the time comes to
> provide a clk_get which is more closely linked to the clock framework
> implementation.

Yeah, it's that sort of feature that most pushes against doing it in the
drivers - for example, the regulator API never ends up doing anything
like the concatenation.