Re: [PATCH] UIO: Resend: Change driver name of uio_pdrv

["Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@strlen.de>]

Hello Hans,

[Added Magnus Damm (= author of uio_pdrv_genirq) to Cc:]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:03:07PM +0200, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> The patch below was already discussed and accepted:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/7/409
> 
> It somehow got lost (probably because I forgot it when I sent my queue
> to Greg...). So, here it is again:
> 
> -------------8<------------------------
> 
> The generic UIO platform device driver should be given a unique driver ID and
> not just "uio". This is especially important since we now have a similar driver
> named uio_pdrv_genirq. Currently, there's no user of this driver in the
> mainline kernel.
I want to suggest to rename uio_pdrv_genirq to uio_genirq instead.  In
my eyes this would be more clear.  IMHO the pdrv suffix doesn't yield
more clearity because it is only used in a certain namespace---namely
that of platform devices.  So e.g.

	/sys/bus/platform/devices/uio_pdrv.0

isn't any better than

	/sys/bus/platform/devices/uio.0

.  Looking at the name of other platform drivers using

	git grep -E '_pdrv(_.*)?"' 

I get three false positives[1] and uio_pdrv_genirq (driver and some
users in arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4a/setup-sh7343.c).  So the _pdrv suffix
doesn't seem very common.

Just my 0.02€

Best regards
Uwe

[1] in drivers/scsi/megaraid.c