linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/24 v2] ARM: cns3xxx: use OHCI platform driver

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Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2012 15:19:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...sta.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/24 v2] ARM: cns3xxx: use OHCI platform driver

On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Florian Fainelli wrote:

> Since both the EHCI and OHCI platform drivers use the same power_{on,off}
> callbacks, rename them to cns3xx_usb_power_{on,off} to show that they are
> shared.

This is an example of the sort of thing I complained about before.  
People who read only the patch description and not the title will
wonder why this patch adds cns3xxx_usb_ohci_pdata and
cns3xxx_usb_ohci_device.

And people who read both will wonder why they talk about different 
things.

Alan Stern

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