Re: [PATCH 1/4] mtd: core: provide unique name for nvmem device, take two

From: Miquel Raynal
Date: Tue Mar 07 2023 - 14:37:02 EST


On Mon, 2023-03-06 at 12:58:02 UTC, Michael Walle wrote:
> Commit c048b60d39e1 ("mtd: core: provide unique name for nvmem device")
> tries to give the nvmem device a unique name, but fails badly if the mtd
> device doesn't have a "struct device" associated with it, i.e. if
> CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONED_MASTER is not set. This will result in the name
> "(null)-user-otp", which is not unique. It seems the best we can do is
> to use the compatible name together with a unique identifier added by
> the nvmem subsystem by using NVMEM_DEVID_AUTO.
>
> Fixes: c048b60d39e1 ("mtd: core: provide unique name for nvmem device")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel