Re: [PATCH 2/2] als: add unique device-ids to the als device class

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 05:19:13PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > That being said... If we want user-space to know what device is there,
> > we may want to still let drivers pass a name string to
> > als_device_register() and let the ALS core create a "name" sysfs
> > attribute returning the string in question. This would be much lighter
> > (for individual drivers) than the previous situation, as the string in
> > question would be a constant (e.g. "TSL2550".) Opinions?
> > 
> Makes sense given we want all drivers to support some form of identification.
> We could do it by stating they will all have that attribute, but given it's constant
> will save repetition to put it in the driver. Conversely it might complicate the handling
> of subsequent attribute_groups so I'd probably favour adding relevant documentation lines
> and leaving it up to the drivers to implement this attribute.
> 
> Thus we'd require (within reason) all drivers to have illuminance0 and name.

Why have a name attribute when you can just use the name of the device
itself instead?  Isn't that what it is there for?

confused,

greg k-h