nvmem: core: Allow specifying device name verbatim

Add code to allow avoid having nvmem core append a numeric suffix to
the end of the name by passing config->id of -1.

Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Carlo Caione <carlo@caione.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Cc: cphealy@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h b/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
index a39f76ff2ccd..b00567a07496 100644
--- a/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
+++ b/include/linux/nvmem-provider.h
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ typedef int (*nvmem_reg_write_t)(void *priv, unsigned int offset,
  * Note: A default "nvmem<id>" name will be assigned to the device if
  * no name is specified in its configuration. In such case "<id>" is
  * generated with ida_simple_get() and provided id field is ignored.
+ *
+ * Note: Specifying name and setting id to -1 implies a unique device
+ * whose name is provided as-is (kept unaltered).
  */
 struct nvmem_config {
 	struct device		*dev;