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SubjectRe: Questions about NVMEM
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 07:33:20PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >> (Q3) The style of drivers/nvmem/Makefile
> >>
> >> This Makefile looks ugly to me.
> >> All nvmem drivers are just single file modules.
> >> Why are they renamed when modules are created?
> >>
> >> For the name-space reason for modules,
> >> prefix "nvmem-" makes sense to me.
> >>
> >> It is true that adding "nvmem-" prefix is redundant while
> >> they are located in drivers/nvmem/ directory,
> >> but renaming in the Makefile is even more annoying to me.
> >> Having said that, we may not want to churn this.
> >
> > This is mainly done for consistent module naming.
> > I prefer to have nvmem- prefix for nvmem modules.
> >
>
> I 100% agree that all nvmem modules should have "nvmem-" prefix
> consistently.
>
> My question was, why .c files do not have the same file name as
> the module name?
>
> The more straight-forward way would be:
> drivers/nvmem/nvmem_core.c
> drivers/nvmem/nvmem-bcm-ocotp.c
> drivers/nvmem/nvmem-imx-iim.c
> etc.

No, the way the current code is, is just fine, please leave it alone, it
is the style that other subsystems are moving to as well.

thanks,

greg k-h

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