From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from saturn.retrosnub.co.uk ([178.18.118.26]:50291 "EHLO saturn.retrosnub.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757526AbbEWLXt (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 May 2015 07:23:49 -0400 Message-ID: <55606340.1090403@kernel.org> Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 12:23:44 +0100 From: Jonathan Cameron MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars-Peter Clausen , Xander Huff , 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 References: <1431038644-41600-1-git-send-email-xander.huff@ni.com> <1431038644-41600-2-git-send-email-xander.huff@ni.com> <555B78A3.2030202@metafoo.de> In-Reply-To: <555B78A3.2030202@metafoo.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Sender: linux-iio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org 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?