linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] extcon: Redefine the unique id of supported external connectors without 'enum extcon' type

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:29:06 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>
Cc:	balbi@...com, myungjoo.ham@...sung.com, k.kozlowski@...sung.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] extcon: Redefine the unique id of supported external
 connectors without 'enum extcon' type

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:10:06AM +0900, Chanwoo Choi wrote:
> This patch just redefine the unique id of supported external connectors without
> 'enum extcon' type. Because unique id would be used on devictree file(*.dts) to
> indicate the specific external connectors like key number of input framework.
> So, I have the plan to move this definitions to following header file which
> includes the unique id of supported external connectors.
> - include/dt-bindings/extcon/extcon.h

Do we have other such fields in dt-bindings that are not enumerated
types?

What's wrong with keeping this as-is and not changing to an integer?

> Fixes: 2a9de9c0f08d ("extcon: Use the unique id for external connector instead of string")

How is this a bugfix?

confused,

greg k-h
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