From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] I2C: i2c-omap: Change device name: i2c_omap -> omap_i2c
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:55:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101218015507.GL5941@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D01E4B5.1010703@ti.com>
* Cousson, Benoit <b-cousson@ti.com> [101210 00:29]:
> On 12/9/2010 11:18 PM, 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?
>
> Well, I do not know any user of that today. Do you have some in mind?
Sounds like it's safe for me to take these two.
Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-18 1:55 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
2010-12-10 8:28 ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-12-18 1:55 ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
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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