From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: b-cousson@ti.com (Cousson, Benoit) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:28:37 +0100 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> <20101209190110.GR20097@trinity.fluff.org>, <87wrni7jys.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> Message-ID: <4D01E4B5.1010703@ti.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 12/9/2010 11:18 PM, 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? Well, I do not know any user of that today. Do you have some in mind? Benoit