From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:55:14 -0700 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "Scott Wood" Subject: Re: Revisited, audio codec device tree entries. In-Reply-To: <20071119170521.GA4368@loki.buserror.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <9e4733910711181010q50c08d2ek8413af74d58cf0ce@mail.gmail.com> <0fd3304ee694b2dc6a8f3055c08dc015@kernel.crashing.org> <9e4733910711181349q1f840bc2w8d30bb33d2a353ce@mail.gmail.com> <4740C0E3.5080704@genesi-usa.com> <4740CB41.8030101@genesi-usa.com> <20071119001209.GD20794@localhost.localdomain> <4741BA7D.10608@genesi-usa.com> <20071119170521.GA4368@loki.buserror.net> Cc: PowerPC dev list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 11/19/07, Scott Wood wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 04:31:57PM +0000, Matt Sealey wrote: > > I never said drivers should depend on it but why do you want to name > > an i2s bus as "i2s" or the i2c bus as "i2c"? > > Because that's what they are? > > > There are far, far more descriptive names that can be used. i2s is > > basically audio, so why not "audio" or "sound" or "headphone"? > > For i2s, that may be reasonable, but i2c can have several devices under it. > > > Why is gpt a "gpt" and not a "timer", it defeats the whole object > > of having a name for it. Since drivers never switch on it, why not > > give them real names? > > That one *should* be timer. Ask whoever did the device tree for it. :-P That one's my fault. sorry. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. grant.likely@secretlab.ca (403) 399-0195