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

[Darren Hart]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 08:18:54PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pali Rohár [mailto:pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 4:06 PM
> > To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>;
> > LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > quasisec@xxxxxxxxxx
> > 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@xxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > 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.

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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center