Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] ptp: derive the device name from the parent device

On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 20:11 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 06:40:58PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:

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On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 17:39 +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote:

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With the device, it is possible to lookup the driver.

For PCI devices, yes.  But there is really no guarantee that device
names (as in dev_name()) are globally unique either.

Ben, I tried to implement your suggestion from September 7th.
Don't you like it, or did I misunderstand you?

For programmatic purposes, setting the parent is the really useful
thing.

I think what I'm still missing from you is some explanation of what the
'clock name' is meant to be used as - a type name, a unique identifier,
a 'friendly name' for listing clocks in a user interface?

Ben.

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