Re: [PATCH 0/4] OMAP: MENELAUS: Improvements on menelaus

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Gadiyar, Anand <gadiyar@ti.com> [080729 22:38]:
> > 2008/7/29 Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com>:
> >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:07:51PM -0500, Woodruff, Richard wrote:
> >>> > How about renaming it to twl92230c before submitting upstream?  As far
> >>> > as I can tell the name menelaus appears only in linux and makes it
> >>> > hard to associate with the real hardware.  Does someone know why was
> >>> > it renamed that way?
> >>
> >>> A number does seem more understandable.  Though some of these chips live under a few different numbers.
> >>
> >> it does seem more understandable, but now that it has been used for so
> >> long I guess it would be nasty to change right now. Almost every one
> >> here knows that menelaus is the companion chip for omap2 hw. Personally,
> >> I never recall the correct number designation for menelaus.
> >
> > Well, menelaus is a friendly name now that I know what it is but it
> > was difficult to find its datasheet without knowing the public name
> > used by the manufacturer, it seemed like a nokia's own chip. Also iirc
> > if you open the device you will only see the TWLxxx name on the chip.
> >
> > I see TWLxxx is now mentioned in the Kconfig so I won't insist.
> >
> > Cheers
> 
> I think it'll be hard for a newbie to figure out what this menelaus is. Google
> won't help either, (unless one really thinks there is a connection between
> Linux and Greek Mythology ;) ).
> 
> I second renaming the file to TWL92230. Mentioning this in Kconfig is simply
> not enough.

Yeah, let's rename it as it's not in mainline yet. I'll apply this
series, then the next set of patches can take care of the renaming.

Tony