[PATCH v1] staging: iio: hmc5843: Set iio name dynamically based on i2c name

LIYONG sdliyong at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 08:37:10 UTC 2015


thanks for your comments. let me submit another one

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> 在 2015年8月12日,16:28,Lars-Peter Clausen <lars at metafoo.de> 写道:
> 
>> On 08/12/2015 10:20 AM, sdliyong at gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Yong Li <sdliyong at gmail.com>
>> 
>> Load the driver using the below command:
>> echo hmc5983 0x1e > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-?/new_device
>> 
>> In sysfs, the iio name is hmc5843, however the i2c name is hmc5983,
>> they are inconsistent.
>> 
>> With this patch, the iio name will be the same as the i2c device name
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Yong Li <sdliyong at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_i2c.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_i2c.c b/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_i2c.c
>> index ff08667..3b03644 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_i2c.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/magnetometer/hmc5843_i2c.c
>> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ static const struct regmap_config hmc5843_i2c_regmap_config = {
>> static int hmc5843_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *cli,
>>                 const struct i2c_device_id *id)
>> {
>> +    cli->dev.driver->name = id->name;
> 
> You are overwriting a the name of the driver, which is a struct that is
> shared between all instances of the device which specific data from one
> device. That is most certainly not correct.
> 
> Update hmc5843_common_probe() and add a parameter that takes the name for
> the device and then pass the id->name when the function is called.
> 
>>    return hmc5843_common_probe(&cli->dev,
>>            devm_regmap_init_i2c(cli, &hmc5843_i2c_regmap_config),
>>            id->driver_data);
>> 
> 


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