Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:02:36 +0000
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
        Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>,
        Linux OMAP List <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Linux ARM Kernel List <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP2+: gpmc-smsc911x: add required smsc911x
	regulators
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:52:34AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> [120213 08:25]:
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 04:52:09PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > 
> > > I think OMAP (or even the reg-fixed-voltage folk) needs to create an enum
> > > similar to what I did for 8250 to control the allocation of platform
> > > device IDs for this, otherwise we're going to keep on running over this
> > > problem.
> > 
> > > Added Mark for his comment.
> > 
> > Hrm, seems slightly icky but the enum will work if we can decide how to
> > add elements to the enum since it'll be easy to bloat a lot it if it's
> > central.  It's tempting to suggest just using a random number to assign
> > the IDs randomly rather than have a central registry but obviously
> > there's no guarantees there.
> 
> Can't we just leave out the .id and have it automatically assigned?

Unfortunately, there's no such infrastructure in the driver model.
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