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-rw-r--r--drivers/nvmem/core.c11
-rw-r--r--include/linux/nvmem-provider.h3
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
index 35a3dbeea324..99e04cfcc723 100644
--- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
@@ -473,9 +473,14 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct nvmem_config *config)
nvmem->reg_read = config->reg_read;
nvmem->reg_write = config->reg_write;
nvmem->dev.of_node = config->dev->of_node;
- dev_set_name(&nvmem->dev, "%s%d",
- config->name ? : "nvmem",
- config->name ? config->id : nvmem->id);
+
+ if (config->id == -1 && config->name) {
+ dev_set_name(&nvmem->dev, "%s", config->name);
+ } else {
+ dev_set_name(&nvmem->dev, "%s%d",
+ config->name ? : "nvmem",
+ config->name ? config->id : nvmem->id);
+ }
nvmem->read_only = device_property_present(config->dev, "read-only") |
config->read_only;
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;