Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] I2C: i2c-omap: Change device name: i2c_omap -> omap_i2c

Cousson, Benoit
2010-12-10T08:28:58Z

On 12/9/2010 11:18 PM, aaro.koskinen@nokia.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Kevin Hilman [khilman@deeprootsystems.com]:
>> Ben Dooks<ben-i2c@fluff.org> 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