linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] clk: sunxi-ng: rename sun8i-h3 driver to sunxi-h3-h5

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Date:   Mon, 27 Feb 2017 13:24:44 +0100
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@...c.xyz>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>,
        linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] clk: sunxi-ng: rename sun8i-h3 driver to
 sunxi-h3-h5

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 09:19:51AM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> As the CCU in the Allwinner H5 SoC is very similar to the one in H3,
> rename the H3 driver to sunxi-h3-h5 so that it can be extended with H5
> support.
> 
> Trasitional header symlinks are created, to ensure current device tree
> files which included sun8i-h3-ccu.h can compile.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@...c.xyz>

Just like for the R40, I wonder whether this is needed at all. We have
a lot of other drivers that we don't have to rename to support new
SoCs. This is kind of weird to make an exception for this one only.

Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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