From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Hilman Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/17] OMAP2/3/4:dmtimer:add device names to flck nodes Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:49:12 -0700 Message-ID: <87r5g9ap6v.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> References: <1285059060-26316-1-git-send-email-tarun.kanti@ti.com> <4CA4F005.6000208@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:32869 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750988Ab0JAPtR (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:49:17 -0400 Received: by pvg2 with SMTP id 2so799798pvg.19 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:49:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4CA4F005.6000208@ti.com> (Benoit Cousson's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:16:05 +0200") Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: "Cousson, Benoit" Cc: "DebBarma, Tarun Kanti" , Paul Walmsley , Tony Lindgren , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "Gopinath, Thara" , "Basak, Partha" "Cousson, Benoit" writes: [...] > Since we are in the name discussion, I'd like as well to potentially > stop using the dmtimer / gptimer confusing naming convention, and > replace that with a simple name "timer". Or potentially "omap_timer". > Dual Mode timer does not mean at lot and General Purpose timer is not > that better. > > We already started that discussion with Kevin some time ago but didn't > really conclude. > > Tony, Paul and Kevin, > Do you have any opinion on that subject? Since the HW teams have decided on aligned names for all the IPs, I think we should stick with those. In this case, "timer". However, since that is such a generic word and used throughout the kernel, maybe calling it omap_timer is better. I'd live with either, Kevin