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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:40:14 -0500 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> To: "Paul Mundt" <lethal@...ux-sh.org>, "Kristoffer Ericson" <kristoffer.ericson@...il.com>, Dmitry <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>, "Russell King" <linux@....linux.org.uk>, linux-main <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Question regarding naming scheme (HP Jornada 6XX/7XX) On Nov 25, 2007 11:30 PM, Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:03:29AM +0100, Kristoffer Ericson wrote: > > > Why I want to use 600-series/700-series instead of 6XX/7XX is simply > > because 600-series/700-series leaves no doubt. > > > Apparently your end users are more technically apt than I am, as I have > no idea how using 00 over XX makes things any less ambiguous. > > We already have a 6xx mach-type that drivers can set their dependency on. > If it's not 680-only, then that's a perfectly reasonable dependency. Feel > free to change the Kconfig text to make the description more useful, but > please don't start idly shuffling around code and symbols because users > can't work out why a driver is available that they can't support. Agreed. Users simply should not care what a particular module is called. If Kconfig entries and/or its help is unclear on whta devices are supported by the drivers let's fix that. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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