linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.18 V6] drivers: add lcd display support

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Date:	Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:52:50 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	"Miguel Ojeda" <maxextreme@...il.com>
Cc:	"Stefan Richter" <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18 V6] drivers: add lcd display support

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:45:56 +0000 Miguel Ojeda wrote:

> Randy, I'm testing right now the V7 of the driver after fixing all
> your mistakes found. Thank you for your deep work: the sharing of the
> buffer was a very good point. Finally I allocated both 2 (the bigger
> and the smaller one at the initialization).
> 
> In a few minutes I will send the V7 patch.
> 
> About "lcdisplay":
> 
> On 9/30/06, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:36:44 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> > > >> patching file drivers/lcddisplay/cfag12864b.c
> > > ...
> > >
> > > What does the D in LCD stand for? I suggest this is named
> > > drivers/lcdisplay/ instead.
> >
> > Yes, someone else mentioned that too.
> > It does mean Display.
> > not a big deal to me in this age of acronyms.
> >
> 
> Well, I can rename it, but there is a problem:
> 
> How should I write the name in other places?
> 
> I mean, for example, in Kconfig:
> 
> 	tristate "KS0108 LCD Controller"
> 
> if the ks0108 is a LCD controller, then
> 
> 	tristate "CFAG12864B LCD Display"

That seems very common to me.

> should be the right way to write it?
> 
> 	tristate "CFAG12864B LCDisplay"
> 
> seems so ugly to me. Is it? Remember, this applies for all the other
> places in the documentation / source code / ...
> 
> IMHO it seems better as LCD Display. Yeah, drivers/lcdisplay/ would be
> nice, but I don't think the same about other places:
> 
> LCD Controller.

OK

> LCDisplay??

I would continue to use LCD display (small d).

---
~Randy
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