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

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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 17:54:30 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@...ck.fi.intel.com>,
	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>,
	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 03:48:19PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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.

Don't take me wrong, I am not against this series, it's a very good job by Uwe
(I planned to do myself something similar, but as you know only had time for
 definitions)!

My comment is to point Uwe's attention to (still) missing parts (as per my
first paragraph).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko