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

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 09/05/2024 14:26, Johan Hovold wrote:
> 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.
> 

I still in general prefer ID tables, because I saw many times people
copy existing code while not understanding above subtleties thus they
just keep multiplying MODULE_ALIAS, but I understand your explanation
and it is reasonable.

FWIW:

Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Krzysztof