[RESEND PATCH] rtc: rk808: rename rtc-rk808.c to rtc-rk8xx.c
Alessandro Zummo
a.zummo at towertech.it
Mon Jan 4 05:59:38 PST 2016
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 10:45:46 +0100
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure it is useful to do that renaming. It is usual to have one
> driver that supports multiple chips named with the forst chip it
> supported.
>
> Also, what would happen if for example rk855 is not compatible at all
> with the previous implementations?
Alexandre is absolutely right. There's no need to rename a driver,
it would just piss off people who are used to that name and
have it in their scripts. Like when your eth0 gets renamed
to some obscure enXXX <g>.
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Alessandro Zummo - CEO,
Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy
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