Re: [RESEND PATCH] rtc: rk808: rename rtc-rk808.c to rtc-rk8xx.c

[Alessandro Zummo]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 10:45:46 +0100
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not sure it is useful to do that renaming. It is usual to have one
> driver that supports multiple chips named with the forst chip it
> supported.
> 
> Also, what would happen if for example rk855 is not compatible at all
> with the previous implementations?

 Alexandre is absolutely right. There's no need to rename a driver,
 it would just piss off people who are used to that name and
 have it in their scripts. Like when your eth0 gets renamed
 to some obscure enXXX <g>.

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 Best regards,

 Alessandro Zummo - CEO,
  Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy

  http://www.towertech.it

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