Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754530Ab0HZQcF (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:32:05 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:51343 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754466Ab0HZQcD (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:32:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:48:22 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: David Brownell Cc: Anton Vorontsov , Andrew Morton , Samuel Ortiz , Mark Brown , David Brownell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: Add generic driver for simple memory mapped controllers Message-ID: <20100826174822.75094415@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <290252.99759.qm@web180316.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <20100826051705.GA25521@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> <290252.99759.qm@web180316.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 804 Lines: 23 > Just rename it to match the IP block used. There are zillions of IP blocks that have that interface, how exactly do you propose to rename it. > That removes all confusion. Engineers will > be able to know more easily whether this > driver is even relevant to them. Not unless its got a name about 1000 characters long listing all the devices it might drive - and changes name weekly. > An example might be "amba-9999 (a made-up > number, likely not matching a GPIO controller). What's wrong with a sensible generic name like gpio-mmio-table ? Alan -- 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/