On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 10:25:54AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 01:18:59PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > > Device tree nodes for each power domain should use generic "power-domain" > > name, so using it as a domain name doesn't give much benefits. This patch > > adds support for human readable names defined in 'label' property. Such > > names are visible to userspace and makes debugging much easier. When no > > 'label' property is found, driver keeps using the name constructed from > > full node name. > > I'm not sure this is really a good use of label. label is intended for > end user visible things like ports/connectors on a board. It's fine > here, but I wouldn't want to see it used everywhere. > Thanks for comments. We want to use the label here for user visible output - through dmesg or debugfs. Otherwise, we would have to stick (always) to more descriptive node names, like "lcd-power-domain@xxxxx". Best regards, Krzysztof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
