From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
To: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
Xander Huff <xander.huff@ni.com>,
robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, galak@codeaurora.org
Cc: michal.simek@xilinx.com, soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com,
knaack.h@gmx.de, pmeerw@pmeerw.net, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org,
ben.shelton@ni.com, joshc@ni.com, joe.hershberger@ni.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: xilinx-xadc: Add xlnx,extend-name as an optional argument for aux channels
Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 12:23:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55606340.1090403@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <555B78A3.2030202@metafoo.de>
On 19/05/15 18:53, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 05/08/2015 12:44 AM, Xander Huff wrote:
>> To better facilitate user-mode access to optional aux channels, allow
>> device trees to specify a custom extended name for defined channels.
>
> Hi,
>
> 'extend-name' is kind of a IIO specific term. I think a better name in the devicetree context would be 'label'. That's used everywhere else when giving a short description string to a node.
>
Hi Lars,
What do you think of the general idea? I'm unconvinced we want to do this in channel naming.
Perhaps we want an additional attribute giving access to this sort of 'semantic' information?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-23 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-07 22:44 [PATCH 1/2] devicetree: xilinx-xadc: Add optional xlnx,extend-name property Xander Huff
2015-05-07 22:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: xilinx-xadc: Add xlnx,extend-name as an optional argument for aux channels Xander Huff
2015-05-19 17:53 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-05-20 15:22 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] devicetree: xilinx-xadc: Add optional label property Xander Huff
2015-05-20 15:22 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] iio: adc: xilinx-xadc: Add label as an optional argument for aux channels Xander Huff
2015-06-07 16:49 ` Jonathan Cameron
2015-06-08 13:49 ` Josh Cartwright
2015-06-14 11:20 ` Jonathan Cameron
2015-05-23 11:23 ` Jonathan Cameron [this message]
2015-05-26 9:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] iio: adc: xilinx-xadc: Add xlnx,extend-name " Lars-Peter Clausen
2015-05-26 19:05 ` Xander Huff
2015-05-08 18:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] devicetree: xilinx-xadc: Add optional xlnx,extend-name property Jonathan Cameron
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