[PATCH v10 05/18] OMAP2, 3 DSS2 Change driver name to omap_display

archit taneja archit at ti.com
Mon Feb 28 02:09:14 EST 2011


Hi,

On Monday 28 February 2011 12:23 PM, Valkeinen, Tomi wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 03:27 -0600, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 11:51 +0530, ext Sumit Semwal wrote:
>>> From: Senthilvadivu Guruswamy<svadivu at ti.com>
>>>
>>> Change the driver name from omapdss to omap_display as the driver takes care of
>>> the display devices ie number of panels, type of panels available in the
>>> platform.  Change the device name in the board files and 2420,2430,3xxx clock
>>> files from omapdss to omap_display to match the driver name.
>>
>> I just realized that changing the driver name will break all scripts and
>> applications using omapdss sysfs files.
>>
>> How does this sound:
>>
>> Let's leave the omapdss device name as it is. It represents a "super"
>> device, containing the dss sysfs files and upper level dss management.
>>
>> Name the HW module platform drivers as: omapdss_dss, omapdss_venc,
>> omapdss_dispc, etc. This would indicate them to be clearly parts of DSS,
>> and would also prevent any possible name conflict if there would happen
>> to be a, say, "dsi" block in some other HW component.
>
> Any comments on this?

I also think we need to stick to the older name, "omapdss_dss" sounds a 
bit confusing, and I think one of the previous versions had something 
like "dss_dss" in it and it wasn't approved. Does something like 
"omapdss_core" or "omapdss_dss_core" make sense, or is it more misleading?

Archit




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