Re: [PATCH 12/13] regulator: add pm8008 pmic regulator driver

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 08:14:43PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 07/05/2024 19:22, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 6:44 PM Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 10:09:50PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >>> Mon, May 06, 2024 at 05:08:29PM +0200, Johan Hovold kirjoitti:

> >>>> +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:qcom-pm8008-regulator");
> >>>
> >>> Use ID table instead.
> >>
> >> No, the driver is not using an id-table for matching so the alias is
> >> needed for module auto-loading.
> > 
> > Then create one. Added Krzysztof for that. (He is working on dropping
> > MODULE_ALIAS() in cases like this one)
> 
> Yeah, please use ID table, since this is a driver (unless I missed
> something). Module alias does not scale, leads to stale and duplicated
> entries, so should not be used as substitute of ID table. Alias is
> suitable for different cases.

There's no scalability issue here. If the driver uses driver name
matching then there will always be exactly one alias needed.

That said, we may use a platform device id table instead of matching on
parent compatible if subdrivers are going to be reused by multiple
devices. I'll consider that.

Johan