Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757495Ab3IPMBh (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:01:37 -0400 Received: from smtp-out-180.synserver.de ([212.40.185.180]:1041 "EHLO smtp-out-178.synserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751494Ab3IPMBg (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Sep 2013 08:01:36 -0400 X-SynServer-TrustedSrc: 1 X-SynServer-AuthUser: lars@metafoo.de X-SynServer-PPID: 7082 Message-ID: <5236F378.9060906@metafoo.de> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:03:04 +0200 From: Lars-Peter Clausen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130827 Icedove/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denis CIOCCA CC: Jonathan Cameron , Lee Jones , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "jic23@cam.ac.uk" , "arnd@arndb.de" , "linus.walleij@linaro.org" , "linux-iio@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/38] iio: accel: st: Append _accel to accelerator sensor device names References: <1378817379-8238-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <1378817379-8238-15-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <52345330.4050707@kernel.org> <5234562D.5050803@kernel.org> <5236C259.6050701@metafoo.de> <5236CD88.10809@st.com> In-Reply-To: <5236CD88.10809@st.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1474 Lines: 33 On 09/16/2013 11:21 AM, Denis CIOCCA wrote: > Hi Lars, >> On 09/14/2013 02:27 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: >>> On 09/14/13 13:14, Jonathan Cameron wrote: >>>> On 09/10/13 13:49, Lee Jones wrote: >>>>> Some of ST's sensors are appended with their sensor type and some >>>>> are not. For consistency we're extending the same naming convention >>>>> throughout. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones >>>> Honestly I don't care either way on these, but consistency would definitely >>>> be good so applied to the togreg branch of iio.git >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>> Actually change of plan. I'm going to hold off on these as this an ABI change. >>> Iritating though having these as completely inconsistent is, changing this >>> will change device identification from userspace which is not a good idea. >>> >>> Sorry Lee, but we really shouldn't do this. I should have picked up on this >>> in the original driver reviews but that's hindsight for you. >> I think those with the suffix are the ones where you have accel and gyro in >> the same package, the ones without the suffix are pure accelerometers. > Yes You are right. I've used this kind of logic... What do you think about? > > Denis Seems sensible to me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/