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From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: pca953x: change driver name to be unique
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:18:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110630141823.GF1997@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110630161101.4bee9b19@endymion.delvare>

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On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:11:01PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:35:59 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > This driver handles the variants pca9534-pca9539, so it chose the name
> > "pca953x". However, there is a led driver which decided on the same
> > name. As a result, those two can't be loaded at the same time. Add a
> > subsystem prefix to make the driver name unique. Device matching will
> > not suffer, because both are I2C drivers which match using a
> > i2c_device_id-table which is not altered.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpio/pca953x.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c b/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c
> > index 0451d7a..b30dd0b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c
> > @@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ static int pca953x_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
> >  
> >  static struct i2c_driver pca953x_driver = {
> >  	.driver = {
> > -		.name	= "pca953x",
> > +		.name	= "gpio-pca953x",
> >  	},
> >  	.probe		= pca953x_probe,
> >  	.remove		= pca953x_remove,
> 
> With the proposed change to the leds-pca9532 driver, you could leave
> this one alone, for the sake of simplicity and consistency with the
> pca953x, pcf857x and max732x gpio drivers.
> 
> But I am not objecting to this change, if you like it.

I am fine with your suggestion.

Thanks!

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-30 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-30 13:35 [PATCH] gpio: pca953x: change driver name to be unique Wolfram Sang
     [not found] ` <1309440959-18692-1-git-send-email-w.sang-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-06-30 14:11   ` Jean Delvare
2011-06-30 14:18     ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
     [not found]       ` <20110630141823.GF1997-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-06-30 14:47         ` Grant Likely

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