From: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [char-misc-next 01/12 v3] mei: Rename mei_device to mei_host
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:39:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130213093907.GM20996@sortiz-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201302122309.01176.arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:09:00PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 February 2013, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > >
> > > > Please let's find something that makes both hw and Linux happy
> > > I still believe it makes sense to use mei_device for what we add to the MEI
> > > bus. I'd be fine with mei_bus_device as well, but that would somehow look
> > > a bit awkward. Greg, Arnd, any preference ?
> >
> > "mei_device" works the best for me. Tomas, what you think of as a "MEI
> > Device" really is a "MEI Controller", it bridges the difference between
> > the PCI bus and your new MEI bus, so you will need to start thinking of
> > these things a bit differently now that you have created your own little
> > virtual bus.
>
> Yes, I agree. mei_bus_device would also work as the name for the controller,
> but not for the devices attached to it IMO.
Tomas, I propose to switch to mei_controller instead of mei_host and keep the
mei_device name for the devices we attach to the MEI bus.
Does that work for you ?
Cheers,
Samuel.
--
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
http://oss.intel.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-13 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-12 18:36 [char-misc-next 00/12 v3] Add MEI bus and NFC device Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 01/12 v3] mei: Rename mei_device to mei_host Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 21:17 ` Winkler, Tomas
2013-02-12 21:29 ` Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 21:38 ` gregkh
2013-02-12 23:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-13 9:39 ` Samuel Ortiz [this message]
2013-02-19 13:32 ` Tomas Winkler
2013-02-20 10:57 ` Samuel Ortiz
2013-03-11 10:44 ` Samuel Ortiz
2013-03-11 13:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 02/12 v3] mei: bus: Initial MEI bus type implementation Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 03/12 v3] mei: bus: Implement driver registration Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 04/12 v3] mei: bus: Initial implementation for I/O routines Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 05/12 v3] mei: bus: Add bus related structures to mei_cl Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 06/12 v3] mei: bus: Call bus routines from the core code Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 07/12 v3] mei: bus: Synchronous API for the data transmission Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 08/12 v3] mei: bus: Implement bus driver data setter/getter Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 09/12 v3] mei: nfc: Initial nfc implementation Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:37 ` [char-misc-next 10/12 v3] mei: nfc: Connect also the regular ME client Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:37 ` [char-misc-next 11/12 v3] mei: nfc: Add NFC device to the MEI bus Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:37 ` [char-misc-next 12/12 v3] mei: nfc: Implement MEI bus IO ops Samuel Ortiz
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