From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ben-i2c@fluff.org (Ben Dooks) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 22:21:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] I2C: i2c-omap: Change device name: i2c_omap -> omap_i2c In-Reply-To: References: <1291904657-32729-1-git-send-email-b-cousson@ti.com> <1291904657-32729-2-git-send-email-b-cousson@ti.com> <878vzydgxr.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> <87wrni7jys.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> Message-ID: <20101209222140.GU20097@trinity.fluff.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:18:48PM +0000, aaro.koskinen at nokia.com wrote: > Hi, > > Kevin Hilman [khilman at deeprootsystems.com]: > > Ben Dooks writes: > > > Renaming stuff like this is going to have an impact on the userspace > > > as anyone looking through /sys's driver heirarchy is going to miss the > > > old name... > > > > > > It all depends if you really want to go ahead with this... > > > > Yes, we are aware of the userspace impact, but this name change makes > > all devices on OMAP have consistent names and actually improves the > > ability to have userspace tools have consistent naming as well. > > So there are no imporant users, or if there is, they are prepared for this change? > > >> > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c | 4 ++-- > > What about the .c / .ko file name? Pretty much everyone is in the form of i2c-xxx.c, so I would prefer it to stay that way. -- Ben Dooks, ben at fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/ben/ Large Hadron Colada: A large Pina Colada that makes the universe disappear.