Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH applied] ich: get rid of spaces in type name

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 04:33:11PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:27:53AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Names with spaces in them are nasty, let's not go there.
> >> 
> >> Yes, they are, but please use '-' instead of '_'.  I can see just a few
> >> devices with '_' in their name, but more than a hundred with '-'.
> >
> > No problem, I made this change.
> > Result pushed to the pci branch, pls take a look there.
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
> The change is good, but I have more questions now.
> 
> What about "ICH9 SMB" in hw/i2c/smbus_ich9.c?

Same thing I guess. I noticed the other one because Igor
touched it in his patch.
Pls go ahead and submit a patch.

> Technically, device names are ABI.  These two are onboard devices, so
> changing their names can't break -device / device_add use.  It still
> could break -global use.  Do we care?
> 
> If yes, the obvious fix is to keep the old name as alias.

I don't think we care practically, but sure, go ahead and submit the
patch if you feel like it.

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MST