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From: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>
To: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul Mundt" <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	"Kristoffer Ericson" <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>,
	"Russell King" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-main <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question regarding naming scheme (HP Jornada 6XX/7XX)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:53:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071126175339.5e8fa5b4.Kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000711260640y68c6136fy181b63af85bf6ae6@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:40:14 -0500
"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 25, 2007 11:30 PM, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:03:29AM +0100, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:
> >
> > > Why I want to use 600-series/700-series instead of 6XX/7XX is simply
> > > because 600-series/700-series leaves no doubt.
> > >
> > Apparently your end users are more technically apt than I am, as I have
> > no idea how using 00 over XX makes things any less ambiguous.
> >
> > We already have a 6xx mach-type that drivers can set their dependency on.
> > If it's not 680-only, then that's a perfectly reasonable dependency. Feel
> > free to change the Kconfig text to make the description more useful, but
> > please don't start idly shuffling around code and symbols because users
> > can't work out why a driver is available that they can't support.
> 
> Agreed. Users simply should not care what a particular module is
> called. If Kconfig entries and/or its help is unclear on whta devices
> are supported by the drivers let's fix that.
> 
Ok, guess the idea was shot down then :). I'll look at Kconfigs to see how I can make it clearer.
thx for feedback.

> -- 
> Dmitry

      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-26 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-25 23:03 Question regarding naming scheme (HP Jornada 6XX/7XX) Kristoffer Ericson
2007-11-26  4:30 ` Paul Mundt
2007-11-26 14:40   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-11-26 16:53     ` Kristoffer Ericson [this message]

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