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[v2,1/2] dt-binding: iio: Add optional label property

Message ID 1568903768-65998-2-git-send-email-preid@electromag.com.au (mailing list archive)
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Series iio: core: Add optional symbolic label to device attributes | expand

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Phil Reid Sept. 19, 2019, 2:36 p.m. UTC
This optional property defines a symbolic name for the device.
This helps to distinguish between more than one iio device
of the same type.

Suggested-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Reid <preid@electromag.com.au>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Comments

Rob Herring (Arm) Sept. 27, 2019, 2:44 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:36:07PM +0800, Phil Reid wrote:
> This optional property defines a symbolic name for the device.
> This helps to distinguish between more than one iio device
> of the same type.
> 
> Suggested-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Reid <preid@electromag.com.au>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Jonathan Cameron Oct. 5, 2019, 2:58 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 09:44:19 -0500
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:36:07PM +0800, Phil Reid wrote:
> > This optional property defines a symbolic name for the device.
> > This helps to distinguish between more than one iio device
> > of the same type.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Phil Reid <preid@electromag.com.au>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)  
> 
> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing
for nothing much to happen to it.

Thanks,

Jonathan
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diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt
index 68d6f8ce063b..af33267727f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/iio-bindings.txt
@@ -18,12 +18,17 @@  Required properties:
 		   with a single IIO output and 1 for nodes with multiple
 		   IIO outputs.
 
+Optional properties:
+label:		   A symbolic name for the device.
+
+
 Example for a simple configuration with no trigger:
 
 	adc: voltage-sensor@35 {
 		compatible = "maxim,max1139";
 		reg = <0x35>;
 		#io-channel-cells = <1>;
+		label = "voltage_feedback_group1";
 	};
 
 Example for a configuration with trigger: