Re: [PATCH v4 15/16] PM / devfreq: tegra: Rename tegra-devfreq.c to tegra30-devfreq.c

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Tue Jun 04 2019 - 10:39:31 EST


04.06.2019 14:23, Thierry Reding ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 02:38:14AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> In order to reflect that driver serves NVIDIA Tegra30 and later SoC
>> generations, let's rename the driver's source file to "tegra30-devfreq.c".
>> This will make driver files to look more consistent after addition of a
>> driver for Tegra20.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/devfreq/Makefile | 2 +-
>> drivers/devfreq/{tegra-devfreq.c => tegra30-devfreq.c} | 0
>> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> rename drivers/devfreq/{tegra-devfreq.c => tegra30-devfreq.c} (100%)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/Makefile b/drivers/devfreq/Makefile
>> index 32b8d4d3f12c..47e5aeeebfd1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/devfreq/Makefile
>> +++ b/drivers/devfreq/Makefile
>> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DEVFREQ_GOV_PASSIVE) += governor_passive.o
>> # DEVFREQ Drivers
>> obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_EXYNOS_BUS_DEVFREQ) += exynos-bus.o
>> obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_RK3399_DMC_DEVFREQ) += rk3399_dmc.o
>> -obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_TEGRA_DEVFREQ) += tegra-devfreq.o
>> +obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_TEGRA_DEVFREQ) += tegra30-devfreq.o
>
> Technically this changes the name of the driver. Sometimes boot or other
> scripts rely on those names. Perhaps a better way of keeping backwards-
> compatibility would be to do:
>
> obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_TEGRA_DEVFREQ) += tegra-devfreq.o
> tegra-devfreq-y += tegra30-devfreq.o
>
> That way you can later on just add the tegra20-devfreq.o to that driver
> as well and have them both ship in one .ko.

Combining two drivers into a single kernel object certainly doesn't work
("multiple definition of `init_module'" error, etc).

Indeed, this changes the name of the driver. It should be fine as long
as it doesn't hurt anybody, so what about to keep this change as-is for
now and wait for complains? I promise to make a revert if this will
cause real problems for anyone. Let's be realistic, there should be a
very little chance that somebody will notice this change. ACK?