On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 03:36:48PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Laurent, > > CC GregKH > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 3:10 PM Laurent Pinchart > <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 09:45:52AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > Each bridge instance creates up to four auxiliary devices with different > > > names. However, their IDs are always zero, causing duplicate filename > > > errors when a system has multiple bridges: > > > > > > sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/auxiliary/devices/ti_sn65dsi86.gpio.0' > > > > > > Fix this by using a unique instance ID per bridge instance. > > > > Isn't this something that should be handled by the AUX core ? The code > > below would otherwise need to be duplicated by all drivers, which seems > > a burden we should avoid. > > According to the documentation, this is the responsibility of the caller > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.11.4/source/include/linux/auxiliary_bus.h#L81 > I believe this is the same for platform devices. > See also the example at > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.11.4/source/include/linux/auxiliary_bus.h#L116 > > Note: the platform bus supports PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO, but the auxiliary > bus does not. Yes, it does not as it's up to the caller to create a unique name, like your patch here does. I'd argue that platform should also not do automatic device ids, but that's a different argument :) This change looks good to me! Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>