linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] regulator: rk808: Make rk808 generic, rename rk808-regulator.c

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Message-ID: <20160415102602.GE3217@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 2016 11:26:02 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Wadim Egorov <w.egorov@...tec.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] regulator: rk808: Make rk808 generic, rename
 rk808-regulator.c

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:16:27AM +0200, Wadim Egorov wrote:

> This patch just renames the rk808 driver so we can reuse this driver
> to add more regulator devices from the RK8XX PMIC family later.

We normally manage to cope fine without renaming things - it's quite
common to have drivers that were initially named after one part
supporting multiple parts, avoiding the rename makes things like
backports easier and avoids needing git log --follow and so on.

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