Re: [PATCH v2] mod_devicetable: Bump auxiliary_device_id name size

[Raag Jadav]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 09:40:46AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 10:58:38AM +0530, Raag Jadav wrote:
> > We have an upcoming driver named "intel_ehl_pse_io". This creates an
> > auxiliary child device for it's GPIO sub-functionality, which matches
> > against "intel_ehl_pse_io.gpio-elkhartlake" and overshoots the current
> 
> Looking at the name there is another question: Why do we need 'elkhartlake in
> the GPIO driver's name now? It's a dup to 'ehl' in the first part.

Just kept it for historic consistency and I'm a bit terrible at naming.

Perhaps "gpio-aux"? But that's too generic from subsystem POV.

Open to suggestions.

Raag

> > maximum limit of 32 bytes for auxiliary device id string. Bump the size
> > to 40 bytes to satisfy such cases.
> 
> > ---
> > v2: Describe the use case (Greg, Andy)
> 
> Thanks for the update!