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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:23:03 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com> CC: "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>, "Vick, Matthew" <matthew.vick@...el.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] ptp: derive the device name from the parent device On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 20:11 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 06:40:58PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 17:39 +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote: > > > With the device, it is possible to lookup the driver. > > > > For PCI devices, yes. But there is really no guarantee that device > > names (as in dev_name()) are globally unique either. > > Ben, I tried to implement your suggestion from September 7th. > Don't you like it, or did I misunderstand you? For programmatic purposes, setting the parent is the really useful thing. I think what I'm still missing from you is some explanation of what the 'clock name' is meant to be used as - a type name, a unique identifier, a 'friendly name' for listing clocks in a user interface? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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