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

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Mon Dec 20 20:34:26 EST 2010


* Kevin Hilman <khilman at deeprootsystems.com> [101220 08:07]:
> 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.

Well Paul acked it.. Will check with him what he wants to do.

Tony



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