From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Cc: "Hennerich, Michael" <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com>,
"linux-iio@vger.kernel.org" <linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>,
Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Subject: RFC: Rename iio_{allocate,free}_device to iio_device_{alloc,free}
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:02:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECB9D6F.4070303@metafoo.de> (raw)
Currently we have two pairs of functions which respectively are used to
allocate/register and unregister/free a iio devices. The first pair is
iio_allocate_device, iio_device_register and the second pair is
iio_device_unregister, iio_free_device. So what can be seen is, that there
is a bit of inconsistency here as to where to put the "device" in the
function name.
So in order to streamline the API I propose to rename iio_free_device to
iio_device_free and iio_allocate_device to iio_device_alloc (alloc instead
of allocate to be more in sync with other in kernel APIs e.g.
platform_device_alloc).
If nobody sees any problems or has any objections I'll send a patch.
- Lars
next reply other threads:[~2011-11-22 13:01 UTC|newest]
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2011-11-22 13:02 Lars-Peter Clausen [this message]
2011-11-22 21:01 ` RFC: Rename iio_{allocate,free}_device to iio_device_{alloc,free} Jonathan Cameron
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