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

Tony Lindgren
2010-12-18T01:55:16Z

* Cousson, Benoit <b-cousson@ti.com> [101210 00:29]:
> 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?

Sounds like it's safe for me to take these two.

Tony