Re: [PATCH] i2c: brcmstb: Fixed adapter named with optional interrupts

[Florian Fainelli]

On 7/16/2022 5:40 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 10:21:15AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > When the adapter is registered without interrupts, we would be showing
> > the following:
> >
> >    # i2cdetect -l
> >    i2c-3   i2c             Broadcom STB :                          I2C adapter
>
> What about switching to pdev->name here? That way you also get the base
> address for free to differentiate if there are multiple instances on the
> SoC?

I was not sure if we could change the adapter name reported as one could 
argue this is now ABI, but if we can, then using dev_name() is probably 
better. You are the maintainer you so know the rules on what is 
considered stable ABI and what is not :)
--
Florian