On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello Lee,
>
> Thanks a lot for your feedback.
>
> On 01/20/2015 09:20 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, 02 Jan 2015, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >
> >> The ChromeOS EC character device is an user-space interface to
> >> allow applications to access the Embedded Controller.
> >>
> >> Add a cell for this device so it's spawned from the mfd driver.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.marti...@collabora.co.uk>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Changes since v1: None, new patch.
> >>
> >> drivers/mfd/cros_ec.c | 4 ++++
> >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/cros_ec.c b/drivers/mfd/cros_ec.c
> >> index c872e1b..70f9ed5 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/mfd/cros_ec.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/mfd/cros_ec.c
> >> @@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ static const struct mfd_cell cros_devs[] = {
> >> .id = 2,
> >> .of_compatible = "google,cros-ec-i2c-tunnel",
> >> },
> >> + {
> >> + .name = "cros-ec-dev",
> >
> > *-dev is seldom suitable for naming things.
> >
> > Please be more imaginative/descriptive in your naming.
> >
>
> You know this is one of the two hard problems in CS ;-)
>
> But seriously, this is the name used in the downstream ChromiumsOS kernel
> and tbh I don't think is that bad since after all is a character device
> interface to access the Embedded Controller from user-space. So in that
> sense is not worse than the i2c-dev or spidev names but I can try to come
> up with something more creative if that will block the patch to be merged.
It's not a blocker, but it is a ridiculous name to use inside the
driver/ directory 'cos almost everything is a dev(ice) here.
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