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 > -- QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a\nmember of the Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
