linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: mmio: drop the "bgpio" prefix

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdaYUbMbVGK-qfUMuBij=+fNfzuED=E3NTGRP8jzR-QYFg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:46:30 +0100
From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc: linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: mmio: drop the "bgpio" prefix

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
>
> The "bgpio" prefix is a historical left-over. We no longer use it in any
> user-facing symbol. Let's drop it from the module's internals as well
> and replace it with "gpio_mmio_".
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>

I don't even know why it was named like that. "Binary gpio"?

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij