Le mar., déc. 21 2021 at 12:29:04 +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen
<lars@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
On 12/21/21 11:43 AM, Paul Cercueil wrote:
All iio devices can have a label, which will be carried on to
userspace
as a sysfs attribute. This is useful when having several iio devices
that represent different instances of the same hardware, as the name
attribute would then not be enough to differentiate between them.
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/common.yaml | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/common.yaml
b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/common.yaml
index f845b41d74c4..a90ad7718ecf 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/common.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/common.yaml
@@ -32,6 +32,14 @@ properties:
considered 'near' to the device (an object is near to the
sensor).
+ label:
+ $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
+ description: |
+ All iio devices can have a label, which will be carried on to
userspace
+ as a sysfs attribute. This is useful when having several iio
devices that
+ represent different instances of the same hardware, as the
name attribute
+ would then not be enough to differentiate between them.
+
The description has a lot of implementation details of the Linux
kernel. The devicetree bindings should be formulated operating system
agnostic.
Something like:
A descriptive label that allows to uniquely identify the device
within the system.
Alright. I'll V2 ASAP.
Cheers,
-Paul
