[PATCH v2 1/2] I2C: i2c-omap: Change device name: i2c_omap -> omap_i2c

Kevin Hilman khilman at deeprootsystems.com
Mon Dec 20 11:07:36 EST 2010


Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> writes:

> * Cousson, Benoit <b-cousson at ti.com> [101210 00:29]:
>> On 12/9/2010 11:18 PM, aaro.koskinen at nokia.com wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >Kevin Hilman [khilman at deeprootsystems.com]:
>> >>Ben Dooks<ben-i2c at fluff.org>  writes:
>> >>>Renaming stuff like this is going to have an impact on the userspace
>> >>>as anyone looking through /sys's driver heirarchy is going to miss the
>> >>>old name...
>> >>>
>> >>>It all depends if you really want to go ahead with this...
>> >>
>> >>Yes, we are aware of the userspace impact, but this name change makes
>> >>all devices on OMAP have consistent names and actually improves the
>> >>ability to have userspace tools have consistent naming as well.
>> >
>> >So there are no imporant users, or if there is, they are prepared for this change?
>> 
>> Well, I do not know any user of that today. Do you have some in mind?
>
> Sounds like it's safe for me to take these two.

These should probably go via Paul's integration branch to avoid
conflicts with the other omap_device/omap_hwmod code.

Kevin




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