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Re: [PATCH 2/3] iio: adc: ti-ads7950: Drop "ti-" prefix from module name

From David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/3] iio: adc: ti-ads7950: Drop "ti-" prefix from module name
Date 2017-01-14 19:10 +0100
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On 01/14/2017 06:49 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 11/01/17 17:52, David Lechner wrote:
>> This drops the "ti-" prefix from the module name. It makes the module name
>> consistent with other iio ti-ads* drivers and it makes the driver work
>> with device tree (the spi subsystem drops the "ti," prefix when matching
>> compatible strings from device tree).
>>
>> Tested working on LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 with the following device tree node:
>>
>> 	adc@3 {
>> 		compatible = "ti,ads7957";
>> 		reg = <3>;
>> 		#io-channel-cells = <1>;
>> 		spi-max-frequency = <10000000>;
>> 		vref-supply = <&adc_ref>;
>> 	};
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
> What worries me here is that we might break existing setups.  I agree
> we should have gotten this 'right' in the first place, but can we fix
> it now.  Not so sure. We'd be better off perhaps adding an of_device_id
> table with the write entries for device tree.

As far as I can tell, this driver only exists in your testing branch. 
Does that really mean that it is too late to get it right?

>> ---
>>  drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
>>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c b/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
>> index 0330361..b587fa6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/ti-ads7950.c
>> @@ -459,25 +459,25 @@ static int ti_ads7950_remove(struct spi_device *spi)
>>  }
>>
>>  static const struct spi_device_id ti_ads7950_id[] = {
>> -	{"ti-ads7950", TI_ADS7950},
>> -	{"ti-ads7951", TI_ADS7951},
>> -	{"ti-ads7952", TI_ADS7952},
>> -	{"ti-ads7953", TI_ADS7953},
>> -	{"ti-ads7954", TI_ADS7954},
>> -	{"ti-ads7955", TI_ADS7955},
>> -	{"ti-ads7956", TI_ADS7956},
>> -	{"ti-ads7957", TI_ADS7957},
>> -	{"ti-ads7958", TI_ADS7958},
>> -	{"ti-ads7959", TI_ADS7959},
>> -	{"ti-ads7960", TI_ADS7960},
>> -	{"ti-ads7961", TI_ADS7961},
>> +	{ "ads7950", TI_ADS7950 },
>> +	{ "ads7951", TI_ADS7951 },
>> +	{ "ads7952", TI_ADS7952 },
>> +	{ "ads7953", TI_ADS7953 },
>> +	{ "ads7954", TI_ADS7954 },
>> +	{ "ads7955", TI_ADS7955 },
>> +	{ "ads7956", TI_ADS7956 },
>> +	{ "ads7957", TI_ADS7957 },
>> +	{ "ads7958", TI_ADS7958 },
>> +	{ "ads7959", TI_ADS7959 },
>> +	{ "ads7960", TI_ADS7960 },
>> +	{ "ads7961", TI_ADS7961 },
>>  	{ }
>>  };
>>  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(spi, ti_ads7950_id);
>>
>>  static struct spi_driver ti_ads7950_driver = {
>>  	.driver = {
>> -		.name	= "ti-ads7950",
>> +		.name	= "ads7950",
>>  	},
>>  	.probe		= ti_ads7950_probe,
>>  	.remove		= ti_ads7950_remove,
>>
>

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[PATCH 2/3] iio: adc: ti-ads7950: Drop "ti-" prefix from module name David Lechner <david@lechnology.com> - 2017-01-11 19:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/3] iio: adc: ti-ads7950: Drop "ti-" prefix from module  name Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2017-01-14 14:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] iio: adc: ti-ads7950: Drop "ti-" prefix from module  name David Lechner <david@lechnology.com> - 2017-01-14 19:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] iio: adc: ti-ads7950: Drop "ti-" prefix from module  name Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2017-01-15 15:00 +0100

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