linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] iio: adc: ad7173: Add ad7173_device

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Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 11:43:17 -0500
From: David Lechner <dlechner@...libre.com>
To: "Ceclan, Dumitru" <mitrutzceclan@...il.com>
Cc: dumitru.ceclan@...log.com, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>, 
	Michael Hennerich <Michael.Hennerich@...log.com>, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>, 
	Rob Herring <robh@...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 v2 6/9] iio: adc: ad7173: Add ad7173_device_info names

On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 11:09 AM Ceclan, Dumitru
<mitrutzceclan@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/05/2024 02:32, David Lechner wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 2:23 AM Dumitru Ceclan via B4 Relay
> > <devnull+dumitru.ceclan.analog.com@...nel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Dumitru Ceclan <dumitru.ceclan@...log.com>
> >>
> >> Add missing names from the device info struct for 3 models to ensure
> >> consistency with the rest of the models.
> >>
> >
> > This affects userspace, right? So probably needs a Fixes: to make sure
> > this gets into the 6.10 release?
> >
> I don't think that it breaks userspace, just creates an additional file.
>
> This creates the file "name" in the iio:deviceX directory that reads the
> string. I do not consider the Fixes: tag a necessity. I consider that it
> resolves inconsistencies in the _device_info struct.

Ah, OK. For some reason, I was thinking that it would default to the
driver name if this was left out.