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From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver•com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource•wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Igor Grinberg <grinberg@compulab•co.il>,
	haojian.zhuang@gmail•com, linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org,
	linux-next@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: pxa: fix build failure for regulator consumer in em-x270.c
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:57:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F747844.9000900@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120329145436.GS3668@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

On 12-03-29 10:54 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 04:28:48PM +0200, Igor Grinberg wrote:
>> On 03/28/12 18:59, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> 
>>>>> static struct platform_device em_x270_gps_userspace_consumer = {
>>>>>         .name           = "reg-userspace-consumer",
>>>>>         .id             = 0,
> 
>>>>> static struct platform_device em_x270_gprs_userspace_consumer = {
>>>>>         .name           = "reg-userspace-consumer",
>>>>>         .id             = 1,
> 
>>> -REGULATOR_CONSUMER(ldo19, "reg-userspace-consumer", "vcc gprs");
>>> +REGULATOR_CONSUMER(ldo19, "reg-userspace-consumer.1", "vcc gprs");
> 
>> Well, I thought of this solution, but I don't like it, as it makes
>> the whole thing very fragile and sensitive to the reg-userspace-consumer
>> platform device registration order and count, isn't it?
>> (That's why I proposed to use NULL...).
> 
> No the platform device numbering should be totally stable for a given
> board unless someone deliberately sets out to renumber them - the .ids
> are explicitly assigned by the board when it registers the device.
> 
>> So, Mark, how do you think the above issues can be handled without
>> putting NULL into the dev_name?
> 
> It shouldn't be a problem I think.

Mark,

Would you like me to send a v3 with the .0 and .1 added, or
are you OK with making that small change to v2 yourself?

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-29 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-05 23:12 [PATCH] ARM: pxa: fix build failure for regulator consumer in em-x270.c Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-06  8:46 ` Igor Grinberg
2012-03-06  9:12   ` Haojian Zhuang
2012-03-06 12:16     ` Mark Brown
2012-03-06 12:22       ` Haojian Zhuang
2012-03-07  0:10 ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-08 22:06   ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-28 15:21     ` Igor Grinberg
2012-03-28 15:27       ` Mark Brown
2012-03-28 15:37         ` Haojian Zhuang
2012-03-28 15:39           ` Mark Brown
2012-03-28 15:59         ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-28 16:13           ` Mark Brown
2012-03-28 16:59             ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-29 14:28               ` Igor Grinberg
2012-03-29 14:54                 ` Mark Brown
2012-03-29 14:57                   ` Paul Gortmaker [this message]
2012-03-29 15:11                     ` Mark Brown
2012-03-29 14:55                 ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-30 11:25                   ` Igor Grinberg

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