Re: [PATCH 12/13] regulator: add pm8008 pmic regulator driver

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 07/05/2024 19:22, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 6:44 PM Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 10:09:50PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>> Mon, May 06, 2024 at 05:08:29PM +0200, Johan Hovold kirjoitti:
> 
> ...
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>>>> [ johan: rework probe to match new binding, amend commit message and
>>>>          Kconfig entry]
>>>
>>> Wouldn't be better on one line?
>>
>> Now you're really nit picking. ;) I think I prefer to stay within 72
>> columns.
> 
> Not really. The tag block is special and the format is rather one
> entry per line. This might break some scriptings.
> 
> ...

I think [] can be wrapped, I saw it at least many times and I use as well...

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>>>> +MODULE_ALIAS("platform:qcom-pm8008-regulator");
>>>
>>> Use ID table instead.
>>
>> No, the driver is not using an id-table for matching so the alias is
>> needed for module auto-loading.
> 
> Then create one. Added Krzysztof for that. (He is working on dropping
> MODULE_ALIAS() in cases like this one)

Yeah, please use ID table, since this is a driver (unless I missed
something). Module alias does not scale, leads to stale and duplicated
entries, so should not be used as substitute of ID table. Alias is
suitable for different cases.

Best regards,
Krzysztof