Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753122AbbG1PTE (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:19:04 -0400 Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:34005 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751574AbbG1PTC (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:19:02 -0400 Message-ID: <55B79D60.4080807@roeck-us.net> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:18:56 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Jones , Matt Fleming CC: Wim Van Sebroeck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Mika Westerberg , Andy Shevchenko , Jean Delvare , Wolfram Sang , Matt Fleming , Peter Tyser , Samuel Ortiz , Aaron Sierra Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] iTCO_wdt: Expose watchdog properties using platform data References: <1438004292-16382-1-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> <1438004292-16382-2-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> <20150728094643.GT14943@x1> <20150728110717.GH2492@codeblueprint.co.uk> <20150728113721.GU14943@x1> <20150728124338.GA2773@codeblueprint.co.uk> <20150728150021.GX14943@x1> In-Reply-To: <20150728150021.GX14943@x1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated_sender: linux@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: authenticated_id: linux@roeck-us.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 968 Lines: 27 On 07/28/2015 08:00 AM, Lee Jones wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Matt Fleming wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Jul, at 12:37:21PM, Lee Jones wrote: >>> >>> The driver shouldn't be called that either. >>> >>> You are the only one. What makes iTCO 'special'? >> >> I don't know, I didn't write it. It looks like Wim did ~9 years ago, so >> it must have made sense to him at the time. >> Coding style wasn't as strict then as it is today. iTCO has just been kept for historic reasons. Sure, we could have changed it to lowercase, but so far no one bothered. Plus, of course, there is always the element that some maintainers hate that kind of cleanup, and patch submitters like Matt are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Guenter -- 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/