linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iio: industrialio-core: look for aliases to request device index

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Message-ID: <ZfX-TEJFPpMPfHum@surfacebook.localdomain>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:17:16 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To: David Lechner <dlechner@...libre.com>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@...ark-techno.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
	Syunya Ohshio <syunya.ohshio@...ark-techno.com>,
	Guido Günther <agx@...xcpu.org>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: industrialio-core: look for aliases to request
 device index

Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 10:53:36AM -0500, David Lechner kirjoitti:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 12:58 AM Dominique Martinet
> <dominique.martinet@...ark-techno.com> wrote:

..

> How about using udev rules to create symlinks for each device based on
> the label attribute? No changes to the kernel are needed.

+1 for the suggestion. We have a lot of information in sysfs to distinguish
devices by a physical connection, even if we have the same names/labels they
may not have the same physical connections (if there is a possibility of the
collision, then it means it has to be fixed elsewhere).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko