Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751844Ab1F3OsV (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:48:21 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:50095 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751017Ab1F3OsQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:48:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110630141823.GF1997@pengutronix.de> References: <1309440959-18692-1-git-send-email-w.sang@pengutronix.de> <20110630161101.4bee9b19@endymion.delvare> <20110630141823.GF1997@pengutronix.de> From: Grant Likely Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:47:55 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: gN2IyFPsfLRFnpC_3Z2HiW_RVdA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: pca953x: change driver name to be unique To: Wolfram Sang Cc: Jean Delvare , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1861 Lines: 45 On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:11:01PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:35:59 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: >> > This driver handles the variants pca9534-pca9539, so it chose the name >> > "pca953x". However, there is a led driver which decided on the same >> > name. As a result, those two can't be loaded at the same time. Add a >> > subsystem prefix to make the driver name unique. Device matching will >> > not suffer, because both are I2C drivers which match using a >> > i2c_device_id-table which is not altered. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang >> > --- >> > ?drivers/gpio/pca953x.c | ? ?2 +- >> > ?1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> > >> > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c b/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c >> > index 0451d7a..b30dd0b 100644 >> > --- a/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c >> > +++ b/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c >> > @@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ static int pca953x_remove(struct i2c_client *client) >> > >> > ?static struct i2c_driver pca953x_driver = { >> > ? ? .driver = { >> > - ? ? ? ? ? .name ? = "pca953x", >> > + ? ? ? ? ? .name ? = "gpio-pca953x", >> > ? ? }, >> > ? ? .probe ? ? ? ? ?= pca953x_probe, >> > ? ? .remove ? ? ? ? = pca953x_remove, >> >> With the proposed change to the leds-pca9532 driver, you could leave >> this one alone, for the sake of simplicity and consistency with the >> pca953x, pcf857x and max732x gpio drivers. >> >> But I am not objecting to this change, if you like it. > > I am fine with your suggestion. All right, I'll ignore this patch then. g. -- 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/