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

Ben Dooks
2010-12-09T23:39:33Z

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:18:48PM +0000, 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?
>
> >> > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c | 4 ++--
>
> What about the .c / .ko file name?

Pretty much everything in the drivers/i2c/busses directory is named
i2c-<something>.c, and I would like to keep it that way.

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