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Message-ID: <20240519180942.6fa2bfe6@jic23-huawei>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 18:09:42 +0100
From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To: David Lechner <dlechner@...libre.com>
Cc: "Ceclan, Dumitru" <mitrutzceclan@...il.com>, dumitru.ceclan@...log.com,
 Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>, Michael Hennerich
 <Michael.Hennerich@...log.com>, 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, 16 May 2024 11:43:17 -0500
David Lechner <dlechner@...libre.com> wrote:

> 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.

Hmm. I'd be tempted to take this a fix as some userspace code relies
on that name being present and it is unusual to not see it.

Jonathan

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