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From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	rtc-linux <rtc-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>,
	Xinwei Hu <huxinwei@huawei.com>,
	Tianhong Ding <dingtianhong@huawei.com>,
	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Subject: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 1/1] rtc: fix type information of rtc-proc
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:54:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151111105450.GC4519@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564294AB.1080500@huawei.com>

On 11/11/2015 at 09:06:51 +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote :
> Hi, all
> 
> I'm sorry. Maybe I didn't describe clearly enough before. These words are finally
> shown to the end user. The end user maybe not a programmer, abbreviation word is unsuitable.
> 

Yes, that is exactly m point. What if an end user currently has a
program parsing the file and looking for alrm_time or alrm_date? After
updating his kernel, the program won't work anymore which is something
we don't want.

> 
> cat /proc/driver/rtc
> 
> rtc_time        : 00:47:43
> rtc_date        : 2015-11-11
> alrm_time       : 03:27:58				//alrm_time --> alarm_time
> alrm_date       : 2015-10-08				//alrm_date --> alarm_date
> alarm_IRQ       : no
> alrm_pending    : no					//alrm_pending --> alarm_pending
> update IRQ enabled      : no
> 
> 

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
	rtc-linux <rtc-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>,
	Xinwei Hu <huxinwei@huawei.com>,
	Tianhong Ding <dingtianhong@huawei.com>,
	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] rtc: fix type information of rtc-proc
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:54:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151111105450.GC4519@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564294AB.1080500@huawei.com>

On 11/11/2015 at 09:06:51 +0800, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote :
> Hi, all
> 
> I'm sorry. Maybe I didn't describe clearly enough before. These words are finally
> shown to the end user. The end user maybe not a programmer, abbreviation word is unsuitable.
> 

Yes, that is exactly m point. What if an end user currently has a
program parsing the file and looking for alrm_time or alrm_date? After
updating his kernel, the program won't work anymore which is something
we don't want.

> 
> cat /proc/driver/rtc
> 
> rtc_time        : 00:47:43
> rtc_date        : 2015-11-11
> alrm_time       : 03:27:58				//alrm_time --> alarm_time
> alrm_date       : 2015-10-08				//alrm_date --> alarm_date
> alarm_IRQ       : no
> alrm_pending    : no					//alrm_pending --> alarm_pending
> update IRQ enabled      : no
> 
> 

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-11 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-08  9:47 [rtc-linux] [PATCH 1/1] rtc: fix type information of rtc-proc Zhen Lei
2015-10-08  9:47 ` Zhen Lei
2015-10-17 11:22 ` [rtc-linux] " Alexandre Belloni
2015-10-17 11:22   ` Alexandre Belloni
2015-11-11  1:06 ` [rtc-linux] " Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2015-11-11  1:06   ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2015-11-11 10:54   ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2015-11-11 10:54     ` Alexandre Belloni
2015-11-12  2:05     ` [rtc-linux] " Leizhen (ThunderTown)
2015-11-12  2:05       ` Leizhen (ThunderTown)

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