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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html