[RFC PATCHv2 1/2] Export SoC info through sysfs

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Apr 8 16:22:01 EDT 2011


On Friday 08 April 2011, Lee Jones wrote:
> I didn't say we won't need it. I'm just finding it difficult to picture
> how it would work. I'm more than happy to implement it, but there are
> more things to take into consideration, such as naming conventions for
> multiple SoCs. Even if they start at '1' and increase sequentially,
> there are still questions that need to be answered, such as; How will
> the SoCs be ordered? First come first served? Priority order? Or we
> could name them by soc_id?

Any of these would be fine IMHO. In most cases, the order is fixed,
either through a board file or through the order in the device tree,
so I would just use a sequential number.

	Arnd



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