Re: [rtc-linux] [PATCH V1 3/6] rtc: da9062: DA9062 RTC driver

[Guenter Roeck]

On 05/13/2015 06:37 AM, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 13/05/2015 at 06:04:47 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote :
> > Don't know how this is handled for rtc drivers, but in other subsystems
> > we just live with the original name. I don't see a need to rename a driver
> > just because it starts supporting more hardware, and xxx is weird anyway
> > since it suggests everything from 000 to 999, which is much worse than
> > just sticking with 9063.
>
> Yes, in particular if at some point in time a new IP matching those xxx
> is completely different from the previous one. I'm not fond of renaming
> the driver either but if diasemi thinks that what they want, I'm open to
> let it happen. But clearly, I don't want to end up in a situation like
> the tlv320aic where you don't know which driver correspond to which
> chip:
>
> sound/soc/codecs/tlv320aic31xx.c
> sound/soc/codecs/tlv320aic31xx.h
> sound/soc/codecs/tlv320aic32x4.c
> sound/soc/codecs/tlv320aic32x4.h
> sound/soc/codecs/tlv320aic3x.c
> sound/soc/codecs/tlv320aic3x.h
> sound/soc/codecs/tlv320dac33.c
> sound/soc/codecs/tlv320dac33.h
>
> Go figure that the tlv320aic3104 can be supported by both tlv320aic3x.c
> and tlv320aic32x4.c but not tlv320aic31xx.c...

Unfortunately that is exactly what is going to happen.

Guenter

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