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Re: [PATCH v2 09/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: rename to dell-wmi-smbios

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On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 08:18:54PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pali Rohár [mailto:pali.rohar@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 4:06 PM
> > To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com>
> > Cc: dvhart@infradead.org; Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>;
> > LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org;
> > quasisec@google.com
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: rename to dell-wmi-
> > smbios
> > 
> > On Tuesday 26 September 2017 20:50:07 Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > > This follows the style of the rest of the platform x86 WMI drivers.
> > >
> > > Renaming the driver requires adjusting the other drivers using
> > > dell-smbios to pick up the newly named includes.
> > >
> > > While renaming, I noticed that this driver was missing from
> > > MAINTAINERS. Add it to that and myself to the list of people
> > > maintaing it.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
> > 
> > Now when driver supports both old and new WMI call interface, I think
> > that renaming is not needed...
> > 
> 
> So all other drivers that use WMI have "WMI" in the name, this would be
> breaking previously set precedence.  Daren, Andy, what would you like
> me to do?

I'm leaning toward Pali's point of view here. In fact, I think the driver name
should reflect WHAT it does as opposed to HOW it does it. vendor-hotkeys is a
much better name than vendor-wmi. We have a lot of drivers that are not nicely
granular and use more generic terms like -acpi or -laptop, but those shouldn't
be the first choice in my opinion. Now, is SMBIOS any better than WMI? :-) Not
really, but it is at least as good as, and less change makes it the winner IMO.

-- 
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center

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[PATCH v2 00/14] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 06/14] platform/x86: wmi: Cleanup exit routine in reverse order of init Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 09/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: rename to dell-wmi-smbios Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 09/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: rename to dell-wmi-smbios Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-09-26 22:10 +0200
      RE: [PATCH v2 09/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: rename to  dell-wmi-smbios <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 22:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 09/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: rename to  dell-wmi-smbios Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-09-28 00:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 09/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: rename to  dell-wmi-smbios kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2017-09-29 17:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2 07/14] platform/x86: wmi: destroy on cleanup rather than unregister Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 12/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: introduce character device for userspace Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 12/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: introduce  character device for userspace Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-09-26 21:10 +0200
    RE: [PATCH v2 12/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: introduce  character device for userspace <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 22:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 12/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: introduce character device for userspace Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-09-26 22:20 +0200
  [PATCH v2 10/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Use Dell WMI descriptor check Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 08/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Introduce a WMI-ACPI interface Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 08/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Introduce a WMI-ACPI  interface Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-09-28 00:20 +0200
  [PATCH v2 11/14] platform/x86: wmi: create character devices when requested by drivers Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 01/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi: label driver as handling notifications Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 13/14] platform/x86: Kconfig: Change the default settings for dell-wmi-smbios Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 03/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi: Don't match on descriptor GUID modalias Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 03/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi: Don't match on  descriptor GUID modalias Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-09-27 19:30 +0200
      RE: [PATCH v2 03/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi: Don't match on  descriptor GUID modalias <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-27 19:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 03/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi: Don't match on  descriptor GUID modalias Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-09-27 19:50 +0200
  [PATCH v2 14/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: clean up wmi descriptor check Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 14/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: clean up wmi descriptor check Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-09-26 22:20 +0200
      RE: [PATCH v2 14/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: clean up wmi  descriptor check <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 22:30 +0200
  [PATCH v2 04/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Add pr_fmt definition to driver Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 05/14] platform/x86: wmi: sort include list Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 02/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: drop needless includes Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 02/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: drop needless  includes Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-09-27 19:50 +0200
      RE: [PATCH v2 02/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: drop needless  includes <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-27 19:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 02/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: drop needless  includes Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-09-27 20:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-09-26 21:10 +0200
    RE: [PATCH v2 00/14] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-26 21:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-09-27 19:20 +0200
        RE: [PATCH v2 00/14] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> - 2017-09-27 19:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2017-09-27 19:40 +0200

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