Re: [PATCH 17/24 v2] ARM: cns3xxx: use OHCI platform driver

From: Alan Stern
Date: Thu Oct 04 2012 - 15:19:02 EST


On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Florian Fainelli wrote:

> Since both the EHCI and OHCI platform drivers use the same power_{on,off}
> callbacks, rename them to cns3xx_usb_power_{on,off} to show that they are
> shared.

This is an example of the sort of thing I complained about before.
People who read only the patch description and not the title will
wonder why this patch adds cns3xxx_usb_ohci_pdata and
cns3xxx_usb_ohci_device.

And people who read both will wonder why they talk about different
things.

Alan Stern

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