Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757967Ab0HOCdl (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:33:41 -0400 Received: from vms173001pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.1]:43910 "EHLO vms173001pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757864Ab0HOCdj (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:33:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:33:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Len Brown X-X-Sender: lenb@localhost.localdomain To: Ike Panhc Cc: David Woodhouse , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett , Randy Dunlap , Corentin Chary , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Thomas Renninger , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] ideapad-laptop: add new driver In-reply-to: <4C6605DF.8080605@canonical.com> Message-id: References: <1281672482-10909-1-git-send-email-ike.pan@canonical.com> <1281690893.23680.475.camel@localhost> <4C650FFB.7090602@canonical.com> <1281692078.23680.487.camel@localhost> <4C6605DF.8080605@canonical.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 783 Lines: 20 If you merge the drivers, I'd sure prefer the name "ideapad-laptop" over "ideapad-acpi". While the maintainerless "toshiba-acpi" driver was a pioneer, and thinkpad-acpi feared installed-base confusion when considering a name change, we tend to reserve the "acpi" in drivers for things that supply ACPI, rather than simply use ACPI. Also, you may find that the platform driver ends up doing more for the laptop than just using what is behind its platform-specific ACPI extension. thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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/