From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Eric Andersson <eric.andersson@unixphere.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
arnd@arndb.de, zhengguang.guo@bosch-sensortec.com,
peter.moeller@cn.bosch.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 3/3] misc: rename bmp085 to bmp18x
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:37:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120306213706.75eb78f1@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331068084-17911-4-git-send-email-eric.andersson@unixphere.com>
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 22:08:04 +0100
Eric Andersson <eric.andersson@unixphere.com> wrote:
> The bmp085 chip has been deprecated by the newer bmp18x chip family from
> Bosch Sensortec.
And yo risk breaking existing systems by renaming it. Are you going to
rename it again when the 285, 385, 485 come out ?
By all means change the description but leave the Kconfig and module name
alone. It's gratuitious breakage and config file frobbing otherwise.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-06 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-06 21:08 [PATCHv2 0/3] Add support for bmp18x to bmp085 Eric Andersson
2012-03-06 21:08 ` [PATCHv2 1/3] misc: clean up bmp085 driver Eric Andersson
2012-03-06 21:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-12 22:53 ` Eric Andersson
2012-03-13 12:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-06 21:08 ` [PATCHv2 2/3] misc: add support for bmp18x chips to the " Eric Andersson
2012-03-06 21:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-06 22:17 ` Eric Andersson
2012-03-07 0:03 ` Mark Brown
2012-03-06 21:08 ` [PATCHv2 3/3] misc: rename bmp085 to bmp18x Eric Andersson
2012-03-06 21:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-06 21:37 ` Alan Cox [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20120306213706.75eb78f1@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk \
--to=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=arnd@arndb.de \
--cc=eric.andersson@unixphere.com \
--cc=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=peter.moeller@cn.bosch.com \
--cc=zhengguang.guo@bosch-sensortec.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®