Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: Add SoC info driver

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On 10/26/2016 2:19 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 3:23:34 PM CEST Imran Khan wrote:
>> On 10/21/2016 4:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> +/* socinfo: sysfs functions */
>>>
>>> This seems overly verbose, having both raw and human-readable
>>> IDs is generally not necessary, pick one of the two. If you
>>> need any fields that we don't already support in soc_device,
>>> let's talk about adding them to the generic structure.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Okay. I will go for human readable IDs. Can we add 2 more fields
>> in the generic structure.
>> These 2 fields would be:
>>
>> vendor: A string for vendor name
>> serial_number: A string containing serial number for the platform
> 
> 
> serial_number seems straightforward, adding this seems like a good
> idea. I don't understand yet what would go into the vendor field
> though. For this particular driver, is it always "Qualcomm", or
> would it be a third-party that makes a device based on that chip?
> 

As we are talking about generic soc_device_attribute fields, I was hoping that
having a vendor field would be helpful as along with family it would provide
a more thorough information. Also as more than one foundries may be used for 
a soc, can we have a field say foundry_id to provide this information.
  
> 	Arnd
> 


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