[PATCH 14/38] iio: accel: st: Append _accel to accelerator sensor device names

Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-09-16T12:03:04Z

On 09/16/2013 11:21 AM, Denis CIOCCA wrote:
> Hi Lars,
>> On 09/14/2013 02:27 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>>> On 09/14/13 13:14, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>>>> On 09/10/13 13:49, Lee Jones wrote:
>>>>> Some of ST's sensors are appended with their sensor type and some
>>>>> are not. For consistency we're extending the same naming convention
>>>>> throughout.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
>>>> Honestly I don't care either way on these, but consistency would definitely
>>>> be good so applied to the togreg branch of iio.git
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>> Actually change of plan. I'm going to hold off on these as this an ABI change.
>>> Iritating though having these as completely inconsistent is, changing this
>>> will change device identification from userspace which is not a good idea.
>>>
>>> Sorry Lee, but we really shouldn't do this. I should have picked up on this
>>> in the original driver reviews but that's hindsight for you.
>> I think those with the suffix are the ones where you have accel and gyro in
>> the same package, the ones without the suffix are pure accelerometers.
> Yes You are right. I've used this kind of logic... What do you think about?
>
> Denis

Seems sensible to me.