From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Cousson, Benoit" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] I2C: i2c-omap: Change device name: i2c_omap -> omap_i2c Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:28:37 +0100 Message-ID: <4D01E4B5.1010703@ti.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from devils.ext.ti.com ([198.47.26.153]:46502 "EHLO devils.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753151Ab0LJI26 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2010 03:28:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: "aaro.koskinen@nokia.com" Cc: "khilman@deeprootsystems.com" , "ben-i2c@fluff.org" , "paul@pwsan.com" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "Nayak, Rajendra" 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? Benoit