Re: [PATCH v3] hwspinlock/msm: Add support for Qualcomm MSM HW Mutex block

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 08/15/2013 07:35 AM, Pawel Moll wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 20:09 +0100, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> +Required properties:
>> +- compatible: should be "qcom,tcsr-mutex"
>> +- reg: Should contain registers location and length of mutex registers
>> +- reg-names:
>> +	"mutex-base"  - string to identify mutex registers
> 
> Just out of curiosity, why is reg-names required? Especially if there
> seem to be only one set of registers?

Indeed, I tend to think that reg-names is a bad idea.

IIRC, the rule for "reg" is that entries must always have a defined
order, so that it can always be accessed by integer index. And given
that's true, allowing for reg-names just creates confusion since it
implies you can look up the index in reg-names and then read reg at that
index.

Now the same isn't true for clocks/clock-names for example, where it's
defined that there is no order, so you must search clock-names first.

Inconsistency in rules, uggh.