Re: [PATCH] iio: tmp006: Set correct iio name

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On 28/04/16 15:19, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 04/28/2016 03:30 PM, Peter Meerwald-Stadler wrote:
>>
>>>> It's clearly wrong. But the problem is there might be an application that
>>>> depends on the wrong behavior, the driver has been around for 2.5 years. So
>>>> it's difficult to fix. We might just go ahead in this case and take the
>>>> chance that nobody will complain. But if somebody complains this will bring
>>>> us the wrath of the Linus.
>>>
>>> Not if you put it into next, test it, then into a new release as early as
>>> possible (for -rc1), clearly document that it's got a user visible change
>>> that should not matter with instructions if anyone hits this as a
>>> bisection for their app failing to email so you know and can revert it.
>>
>> is this the only driver doing it wrong?
>>
>> pmeerw@pmeerw:/var/git/linux/drivers/iio$ rgrep "indio_dev->name = dev_name" . 
>> ./imu/inv_mpu6050/inv_mpu_core.c:		indio_dev->name = dev_name(dev);
>> ./light/lm3533-als.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
>> ./dac/vf610_dac.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
>> ./dac/stx104.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(dev);
>> ./dac/lpc18xx_dac.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
>> ./adc/mcp3422.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev);
>> ./adc/at91-sama5d2_adc.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
>> ./adc/vf610_adc.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
>> ./adc/ti_am335x_adc.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
>> ./adc/nau7802.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev);
>> ./adc/da9150-gpadc.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(dev);
>> ./adc/lpc18xx_adc.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
>> ./adc/rockchip_saradc.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
>> ./adc/imx7d_adc.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
>> ./adc/cc10001_adc.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
>> ./adc/berlin2-adc.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
>> ./adc/exynos_adc.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev);
>> ./temperature/tmp006.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev);
>> ./chemical/ams-iaq-core.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev);
>> ./chemical/vz89x.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev);
>> ./humidity/si7005.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev);
>> ./humidity/hdc100x.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev);
>> ./humidity/si7020.c:	indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev);
> 
> Yes, they are all wrong. Mostly of it is just copy'n'paste. We need to be
> more careful to catch these in the future.
> 
<expletive deleted>  Lars is unfortunately right, I don't think
we can unwind this mess now.  If it had been just one driver I'd
have crossed my fingers and taken it - unfortunately this is way
too many.

Only way we could clean this up would be define new ABI with the
intended value and deprecate the old one over a very very long time.
Do we want to do this?