Re: [PATCH 2/3] ptp: Add clock name to uevent

Sven Schnelle
2024-10-16T05:20:43Z

Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 02:43:28PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> * @name: A short "friendly name" to identify the clock and to
>> * help distinguish PHY based devices from MAC based ones.
>> * The string is not meant to be a unique id.
>>
>> If the name is not unique, you probably should not be using it for
>> udev naming.
>
> +1
>
> Maybe the name is unique for s390, but it will not be in general.

As already written to Greg, i will drop this Patch. The name is unique,
i was just not aware that the clock_name attribute is present in sysfs.