Re: Question regarding naming scheme (HP Jornada 6XX/7XX)

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Mon Nov 26 2007 - 09:40:34 EST


On Nov 25, 2007 11:30 PM, Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:03:29AM +0100, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:
>
> > Why I want to use 600-series/700-series instead of 6XX/7XX is simply
> > because 600-series/700-series leaves no doubt.
> >
> Apparently your end users are more technically apt than I am, as I have
> no idea how using 00 over XX makes things any less ambiguous.
>
> We already have a 6xx mach-type that drivers can set their dependency on.
> If it's not 680-only, then that's a perfectly reasonable dependency. Feel
> free to change the Kconfig text to make the description more useful, but
> please don't start idly shuffling around code and symbols because users
> can't work out why a driver is available that they can't support.

Agreed. Users simply should not care what a particular module is
called. If Kconfig entries and/or its help is unclear on whta devices
are supported by the drivers let's fix that.

--
Dmitry
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