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authorAndrey Smirnov <[email protected]>2018-03-09 14:46:56 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>2018-03-14 19:28:13 +0100
commitfd0f4906a3cdf2fedc980764a073f2313bdf1f47 (patch)
tree3efe71a728ac18aa557bb02d9cc5a9bbbf63e4df /include/linux
parent0b2ed745e76debad33410870c4850ef2ca42f5e3 (diff)
nvmem: core: Allow specifying device name verbatim
Add code to allow avoid having nvmem core append a numeric suffix to the end of the name by passing config->id of -1. Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <[email protected]> Cc: Heiko Stuebner <[email protected]> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> Cc: Carlo Caione <[email protected]> Cc: Kevin Hilman <[email protected]> Cc: Matthias Brugger <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/nvmem-provider.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h b/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
index a39f76ff2ccd..b00567a07496 100644
--- a/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
+++ b/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ typedef int (*nvmem_reg_write_t)(void *priv, unsigned int offset,
* Note: A default "nvmem<id>" name will be assigned to the device if
* no name is specified in its configuration. In such case "<id>" is
* generated with ida_simple_get() and provided id field is ignored.
+ *
+ * Note: Specifying name and setting id to -1 implies a unique device
+ * whose name is provided as-is (kept unaltered).
*/
struct nvmem_config {
struct device *dev;