linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 5/9] platform/x86: i2c-multi-instantiate: Rename it for a generic bus driver name

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jan 2022 19:39:25 +0100
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Stefan Binding <sbinding@...nsource.cirrus.com>
Cc:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Mark Gross <markgross@...nel.org>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        "moderated list:SOUND - SOC LAYER / DYNAMIC AUDIO POWER MANAGEM..." 
        <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-spi <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        patches@...nsource.cirrus.com,
        Lucas Tanure <tanureal@...nsource.cirrus.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/9] platform/x86: i2c-multi-instantiate: Rename it for
 a generic bus driver name

Hi,

On 1/20/22 19:34, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 2:43 PM Stefan Binding
> <sbinding@...nsource.cirrus.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Lucas Tanure <tanureal@...nsource.cirrus.com>
>>
>> Rename I2C multi instantiate driver to bus-multi-instantiate for
>> upcoming addition of SPI support
> 
> TBH, I don't particularly like the new naming.
> 
> Namely, the "bus" part seems overly generic (and the "bmi"
> abbreviation brings something totally different to mind).
> 
> AFAICS this can cover serial interfaces only and specifically the ones
> where serial links can be represented as resources returned by the
> ACPI _CRS object.
> 
> I would call it serial-multi-instance or similar.

serial-multi-instantiate works for me. That also nice matches
up with the ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_SERIAL_BUS which acpi/scan.c
uses to detect these kinda resources.

Regards,

Hans