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

[Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@gmail.com>]

Mark Brown wrote:
> Follow the approach suggested by Russell King and implemented by him in
> the clkdev API and allow consumer device supply mapings to be set up
> using the dev_name() for the consumer instead of the struct device.
> In order to avoid making existing machines instabuggy and creating merge
> issues the use of struct device is still supported for the time being.
>
> This resolves problems working with buses such as I2C which make the
> struct device available late providing that the final device name is
> known, which is the case for most embedded systems with fixed setups.
>
> Consumers must still use the struct device when calling regulator_get().
>
>   
Hi,

This patch is an excellent solution to the problem.

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?

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

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Jonathan Cameron