Re: [PATCH 1/5] extcon: Allow extcon drivers to specify the extcon name

[Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>]

Hi Hans,

I'm sorry for late reply.

On 2017년 04월 21일 22:01, Hans de Goede wrote:
> The parent device name is not necessarily always useful, e.g.
> with i2c devices it may simply be e.g.: "0-0022" and it also depends
> on the i2c-bus number which depends on probe ordering.
> 
> This commit allows drivers to set their own, more useful name,
> avoiding the problems with some i2c-device names.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/extcon/extcon.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
> index f422a78..f8d3c1b 100644
> --- a/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
> +++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon.c
> @@ -1117,7 +1117,8 @@ int extcon_dev_register(struct extcon_dev *edev)
>  	edev->dev.class = extcon_class;
>  	edev->dev.release = extcon_dev_release;
>  
> -	edev->name = dev_name(edev->dev.parent);
> +	if (!edev->name)
> +		edev->name = dev_name(edev->dev.parent);

I think that the variables of 'struct extcon_dev' should be modified by extcon core.
I don't want to touch the variables of 'struct extcon_dev' by extcon provider driver.

>  	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(edev->name)) {
>  		dev_err(&edev->dev,
>  			"extcon device name is null\n");
> 


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Best Regards,
Chanwoo Choi
Samsung Electronics