Re: [PATCH 12/13] regulator: add pm8008 pmic regulator driver

[Johan Hovold]

On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 12:48:18PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 09/05/2024 10:57, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 08:14:43PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> On 07/05/2024 19:22, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> >> Yeah, please use ID table, since this is a driver (unless I missed
> >> something). Module alias does not scale, leads to stale and duplicated
> >> entries, so should not be used as substitute of ID table. Alias is
> >> suitable for different cases.
> > 
> > There's no scalability issue here. If the driver uses driver name
> > matching then there will always be exactly one alias needed.
> 
> And then we add one more ID with driver data and how does it scale?

That's what I wrote in the part of my reply that you left out. If a
driver is going to be used for multiple devices, then a module id table
makes sense, but there is no need to go around adding redundant tables
just for the sake of it when a simple alias will do.

Johan