Re: Should 9aafabc7fece be reverted?

[Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 18.05.2016 19:58, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Why do we need this patch? I removed giving each battery a number in its
> name intentionally. It doesn't seem to be needed anymore, and only two
> old drivers out of the ~70 power supply drivers do this.
>

The patch is needed because commit <703df6c09795> breaks existing 
userspace on Nokia N900, which counts on name numbering. Also, commit 
<703df6c09795> description says nothing about name changing, so I 
assumed it is an unintentional side-effect of splitting the code into 
modules.

> Also I don't see this in my mailbox archive, was I CC'd on this patch?
>

You were not, get_maintainer.pl on v4.4-rc7 (the tree I was working on 
by the time I've sent <9aafabc7fece>, iirc) gives:

Sebastian Reichel <xxx@xxx.org> (maintainer:POWER SUPPLY CLASS/SUBSYSTEM 
and DRIVERS)
Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <xxx@xxx.org> (maintainer:POWER SUPPLY 
CLASS/SUBSYSTEM and DRIVERS)
David Woodhouse <xxx@xxx.org> (maintainer:POWER SUPPLY CLASS/SUBSYSTEM 
and DRIVERS)
"Pali Rohár" <xxx@xxx.org> (maintainer:NOKIA N900 POWER SUPPLY DRIVERS)
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org (open list:POWER SUPPLY CLASS/SUBSYSTEM and 
DRIVERS)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
(mail addresses masked by me)

You are not listed and as I try to avoid making more noise than needed 
when sending patches, I didn't include you in CC. Apologies if I should 
have CC-ed you.

Ivo