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

aaro.koskinen at nokia.com aaro.koskinen at nokia.com
Thu Dec 9 17:18:48 EST 2010


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?

>> >  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-omap.c        |    4 ++--

What about the .c / .ko file name?

A.



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