Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: Add SoC info driver

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Bjorn,

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Bjorn Andersson
<bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed 26 Oct 07:05 PDT 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 7:20:42 PM CEST Imran Khan wrote:
>> > On 10/26/2016 2:19 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> > > On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 3:23:34 PM CEST Imran Khan wrote:
>> > >> On 10/21/2016 4:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> > >> Okay. I will go for human readable IDs. Can we add 2 more fields
>> > >> in the generic structure.
>> > >> These 2 fields would be:
>> > >>
>> > >> vendor: A string for vendor name
>> > >> serial_number: A string containing serial number for the platform
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > serial_number seems straightforward, adding this seems like a good
>> > > idea. I don't understand yet what would go into the vendor field
>> > > though. For this particular driver, is it always "Qualcomm", or
>> > > would it be a third-party that makes a device based on that chip?
>> >
>> > As we are talking about generic soc_device_attribute fields, I was hoping that
>> > having a vendor field would be helpful as along with family it would provide
>> > a more thorough information. Also as more than one foundries may be used for
>> > a soc, can we have a field say foundry_id to provide this information.
>>
>> My first feeling is that this 'vendor' information can should be
>> derived from the family.
>
> In [1] Geert just put the vendor directly into "family", while Imran
> uses "Snapdragon" (which I find reasonable in the Qualcomm case). But it
> seems like Geert would like a "vendor" as well, rather than a "family".
>
> And if "family" really is supposed to contain the "SoC family name" and
> we're trying to provide user space with some useful information (for
> some reason), should we just rely on the unlikeliness of two vendors
> using the same family name?
>
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1261742.html

I think vendor is slightly less volatile than family. Family may
change overnight
if marketing had a good dream. Well, vendor may change, too...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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