Re: standardizing i2c device ids

[Patrick Leis <venture@google.com>]

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On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 11:26 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> On 21/6/24 00:03, Patrick Leis wrote:
> > Corey and Peter,
> >
> > My team builds lots of configurations for Qemu boards, and one pain
> > point has been that the qom path for a device depends on the device
> > insertion order, child[0], child[1] and the like.  I noticed that the
> > qdev paths for devices also exist by their device id property.  By
> > default, this ends up being the device type name.  I was wondering if it
> > made sense to override this with the device type plus the smbus
> > address?  I did something similar with the i2c mux device, to resolve
> > part of this issue.
>
> Including Markus since we discussed this with him last year, but
> I don't remember correctly what was agreed / decided :S
>

Thanks :)

I'd really like to be able to access devices with paths that specify the
device I want specifically :)


>
> Regards,
>
> Phil.
>

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