From: ben-i2c@fluff.org (Ben Dooks)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] I2C: i2c-omap: Change device name: i2c_omap -> omap_i2c
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 23:39:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101209233930.GV20097@trinity.fluff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC214410FD04D84F9079A6242365970707D4FA@008-AM1MPN1-001.mgdnok.nokia.com>
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 <ben-i2c@fluff.org> 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 everything in the drivers/i2c/busses directory is named
i2c-<something>.c, and I would like to keep it 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-09 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-09 14:24 [PATCH v2 0/2] OMAP: I2C and UART device name cleanup Benoit Cousson
2010-12-09 14:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] I2C: i2c-omap: Change device name: i2c_omap -> omap_i2c Benoit Cousson
2010-12-09 16:55 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-12-09 19:01 ` Ben Dooks
2010-12-09 20:46 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-12-09 22:18 ` aaro.koskinen at nokia.com
2010-12-09 22:21 ` Ben Dooks
2010-12-09 23:39 ` Ben Dooks [this message]
2010-12-10 8:28 ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-12-18 1:55 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-12-20 16:07 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-12-21 1:34 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-12-09 20:58 ` Ben Dooks
2010-12-09 17:04 ` Paul Walmsley
2010-12-09 14:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] OMAP: serial: Change device name: omap-hsuart -> omap_uart Benoit Cousson
2010-12-09 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] OMAP: I2C and UART device name cleanup Kevin Hilman
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