Re: [PATCH 01/15] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:05:48PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > That's not so bad, as long as you let the phy core use whatever name it
> > wants for the device when it registers it with sysfs.
> 
> Yes, in regulator core consumer names are completely separated from this. 
> Regulator core simply assigns a sequential integer ID to each regulator 
> and registers /sys/class/regulator/regulator.ID for each regulator.

Yes, that's fine.

> > Use the name you
> > are requesting as a "tag" or some such "hint" as to what the phy can be
> > looked up by.
> > 
> > Good luck handling duplicate "tags" :)
> 
> The tag alone is not a key. Lookup key consists of two components, 
> consumer device name and consumer tag. What kind of duplicate tags can be 
> a problem here?

Ok, I didn't realize it looked at both parts, that makes sense, thanks.

greg k-h
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