On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:41:19AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > For devices not instantiated through ACPI the i2c-client's device-name > gets set to <busnr>-<addr> by default, e.g. "0-0022" this means that > the device-name is dependent on the order in which the i2c-busses are > enumerated. > > In some cases having a predictable constant device-name is desirable, > for example on non device-tree platforms the link between a regulator > and its consumers is specified by the platform code by setting > regulator_init_data.consumers. This array identifies the regulator's > consumers by dev_name and supply(-name). Which requires a constant > dev_name. > > This commit adds a dev_name field to i2c_board_info allowing > platform code to set a contstant dev_name so that the device can > be identified by its dev_name in other platform code. > > Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> So, the live discussion at ELCE17 between broonie, Andy, and me came to a good end for you ;) Applied to for-next, thanks!
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