linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] i2c: i2c-core-acpi: Add i2c_acpi_dev

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Date:   Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:56:44 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Daniel Scally <djrscally@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
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        andy@...nel.org, mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com,
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        mgross@...ux.intel.com, robert.moore@...el.com,
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        laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com, kieran.bingham@...asonboard.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] i2c: i2c-core-acpi: Add i2c_acpi_dev_name()

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 10:43:14AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-01-18 at 15:39 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 12:34:25AM +0000, Daniel Scally wrote:
> > > We want to refer to an i2c device by name before it has been
> > 
> > I²C
> 
> Andy, are you next going to suggest renaming all the files with i2c?

Where did you get this from?

> Please do not use the pedantic I²C, 7 bit ascii is just fine here.
> 
> My keyboard does not have a superscripted 2 key, and yes, I know
> how to use it with multiple keypresses but it's irrelevant.

I2C is fine for me as well.

...

> > > created by the kernel; add a function that constructs the name
> > > from the acpi device instead.
> > 
> > acpi -> ACPI
> 
> Same deal with acpi filenames.

Where did you get about *file* names, really? Maybe you read again above?

...

> > Prefix: "i2c: core: "
> 
> Please stop being a pedant on these trivial things.
> It's unimportant and has almost no value.

This series is going to have a new version, that's why I did those comments.
If it had been the only comments, I would have not posted them.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko