linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH] spmi: prefix spmi bus device names with "spmi"

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Date:   Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:51:10 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     David Collins <collinsd@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] spmi: prefix spmi bus device names with "spmi"

Quoting Mark Brown (2020-10-01 10:43:26)
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 05:07:20PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Quoting David Collins (2020-09-22 15:04:18)
> 
> > > This helps to disambiguate SPMI device regmaps from I2C ones
> > > at /sys/kernel/debug/regmap since I2C devices use a very
> > > similar naming scheme: 0-0000.
> 
> > Can regmap debugfs prepend the bus name on the node made in debugfs?
> > Does it do that already?
> 
> It doesn't do that.  I have to say that given the use of dev_name() in
> logging it does feel like it'd be useful to have distinct names for
> grepping if we're running into collisions, IIRC the reason I went with
> dev_name() was that it's a commonly used human readable handle for
> diagnostic infrastrucuture so it makes it easier to follow things around.

To me the dev_name() usage seems fine. Maybe David has some real reason
to change this though?

In general I don't think userspace cares what the SPMI device name is,
i.e. the device name isn't used for dev nodes because SPMI doesn't
support ioctls or read/write APIs on the bus. That could be a nice
feature addition though, to support something like i2c-dev.

Changing it so that regmap debugfs is less likely to collide looks
weird. It doesn't actually collide anyway, so it seems like we're adding
spmi prefix to make it easier to find in debugfs?