Re: MUSB sysfs node naming convention

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On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 01:28:30PM -0500, Bin Liu wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:21:29PM -0500, Bin Liu wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Currently, the sysfs MUSB node name uses kernel device name global
>> >> *auto* convention. So depending on kernel configuration, the two MUSB
>> >> device nodes could be musb-hdrc.0.auto/musb-hdrc.1.auto, or
>> >> musb-hdrc.1.auto/musb-hdrc.2.auto. Of cause the index could be any
>> >> other number if there were more devices using this naming convention.
>> >>
>> >> Why we decided to name MUSB nodes this way? It gives me a lot of
>> >> troubles in scripting and documentation.
>> >
>> > it's just the device name, that's all. We could name it with a string
>> > representing the register address. Something like 'musb-47401c00'
>>
>> Yeah, I know it is just a name, that is why I want to know if possible
>> to change the default to not use the global name, to something static,
>> so that it is easier for scripting and documentation?
>
> sure, why not ? I don't think anybody is really relying on those. Send a
> patch and let's see if anybody complains.

Cool, I will find a time to make the patch. Thanks.

>
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> balbi
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