Re: [PATCH v10 05/18] OMAP2,3 DSS2 Change driver name to omap_display

Tomi Valkeinen
2011-02-28T06:53:43Z

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 03:27 -0600, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 11:51 +0530, ext Sumit Semwal wrote:
> > From: Senthilvadivu Guruswamy <svadivu@ti.com>
> >
> > Change the driver name from omapdss to omap_display as the driver takes care of
> > the display devices ie number of panels, type of panels available in the
> > platform. Change the device name in the board files and 2420,2430,3xxx clock
> > files from omapdss to omap_display to match the driver name.
>
> I just realized that changing the driver name will break all scripts and
> applications using omapdss sysfs files.
>
> How does this sound:
>
> Let's leave the omapdss device name as it is. It represents a "super"
> device, containing the dss sysfs files and upper level dss management.
>
> Name the HW module platform drivers as: omapdss_dss, omapdss_venc,
> omapdss_dispc, etc. This would indicate them to be clearly parts of DSS,
> and would also prevent any possible name conflict if there would happen
> to be a, say, "dsi" block in some other HW component.

Any comments on this?

Tomi