linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 31/32] spi: Drop compat layer from renaming "master" to "controller"

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Message-ID: <ZcZJQzpMlSiiKqU0@finisterre.sirena.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 15:48:19 +0000
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy@...ck.fi.intel.com>
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	kernel@...gutronix.de, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	James Clark <james.clark@....com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 31/32] spi: Drop compat layer from renaming "master"
 to "controller"

On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 05:24:42PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> Besides, we still have drivers that use master/slave terminology in
> their (local) variables, functions and data type names.

There are also devices that have the terminology in their register maps
which we can't really do anything about.  This series was just getting
rid of this specific compat API, not solving every problem ever.

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