Re: rx51-battery.ko incompatiblity: board code vs DT

[Pavel Machek]

On Mon 2015-07-06 21:44:22, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> now I found out that rx51-battery.ko driver register sysnode 
> /sys/class/power_supply/rx51-battery/ when booting with legacy board 
> code. But when booting DT kernel it register sysnode with different name 
> /sys/class/power_supply/n900-battery/
> 
> Sysfs node for DT kernel comes from Nokia N900 DTS file: 
> arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dts
> 
> I would propose change which change DTS to "rx51-battery" to have it 
> compatible with naming which is for legacy board code. It is just 
> because to have compatibility and same naming scheme and also to make 
> existing programs to work without needing patching them.
> 
> What do you think?

Makes sense.. along with _big_ comment in the dts why we are doing
this.
									Pavel
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