Re: nvmem creates multiple devices with the same name
From: Sascha Hauer
Date: Tue May 21 2019 - 05:23:39 EST
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 10:02:32AM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
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> On 21/05/2019 09:56, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > . Are there any suggestions how to register the nvmem devices
> > with a different name?
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> struct nvmem_config provides id field for this purpose, this will be used by
> nvmem to set the device name space along with name field.
There's no way for a caller to know a unique name/id combination.
The mtd layer could initialize the id field with the mtd number, but
that would still not guarantee that another caller, like an EEPROM
driver or such, doesn't use the same name/id combination.
Sascha
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