linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/22] regulator: Change ab8500 match names to reflect Device Tree

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Message-ID: <20120530100302.GD9947@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 May 2012 11:03:03 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, arnd@...db.de,
	linus.walleij@...ricsson.com, grant.likely@...retlab.ca,
	cjb@...top.org, sameo@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mattias WALLIN <mattias.wallin@...ricsson.com>,
	Bengt Jonsson <bengt.g.jonsson@...ricsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/22] regulator: Change ab8500 match names to reflect
 Device Tree

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 02:58:44PM +0800, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> wrote:

> > +       { .name = "ab8500_ldo_ana",     .driver_data = (void *) AB8500_LDO_ANA, },

> So why is the device tree going to use these lowercase names etc?
> I guess there is a rationale...

If we are changing the names then not including the ab8500 bit would
seem more idiomatic - we've already worked out which chip this is by the
time we're looking here.

> Anyway: the name is used in more parts of the file, so please change
> it everywhere if you change it.

It's only used for a few debug prints AFAICT?

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