From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] I2C: i2c-omap: Change device name: i2c_omap -> omap_i2c Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:34:26 -0800 Message-ID: <20101221013426.GJ5941@atomide.com> References: <1291904657-32729-1-git-send-email-b-cousson@ti.com> <1291904657-32729-2-git-send-email-b-cousson@ti.com> <878vzydgxr.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> <20101209190110.GR20097@trinity.fluff.org> <87wrni7jys.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> <4D01E4B5.1010703@ti.com> <20101218015507.GL5941@atomide.com> <87oc8g5sxj.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.71]:61964 "EHLO mho-01-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933384Ab0LUBeh (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:34:37 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87oc8g5sxj.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Hilman Cc: "Cousson, Benoit" , "aaro.koskinen@nokia.com" , "ben-i2c@fluff.org" , "paul@pwsan.com" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "Nayak, Rajendra" * Kevin Hilman [101220 08:07]: > Tony Lindgren writes: > > > * Cousson, Benoit [101210 00:29]: > >> On 12/9/2010 11:18 PM, aaro.koskinen@nokia.com wrote: > >> >Hi, > >> > > >> >Kevin Hilman [khilman@deeprootsystems.com]: > >> >>Ben Dooks writes: > >> >>>Renaming stuff like this is going to have an impact on the userspace > >> >>>as anyone looking through /sys's driver heirarchy is going to miss the > >> >>>old name... > >> >>> > >> >>>It all depends if you really want to go ahead with this... > >> >> > >> >>Yes, we are aware of the userspace impact, but this name change makes > >> >>all devices on OMAP have consistent names and actually improves the > >> >>ability to have userspace tools have consistent naming as well. > >> > > >> >So there are no imporant users, or if there is, they are prepared for this change? > >> > >> Well, I do not know any user of that today. Do you have some in mind? > > > > Sounds like it's safe for me to take these two. > > These should probably go via Paul's integration branch to avoid > conflicts with the other omap_device/omap_hwmod code. Well Paul acked it.. Will check with him what he wants to do. Tony