Re: [PATCH] spi: reorganize drivers

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Sun Jun 05 2011 - 09:08:39 EST


On Jun 05 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 09:54, Baruch Siach <baruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 01:13:28PM +0530, Jassi Brar wrote:
> >> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > [repost: I had a typo on the spi-devel-general mailing list address]
> >> >
> >> > Sort the SPI makefile and enforce the naming convention spi_*.c for
> >> > spi drivers.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >> Though the spi_ prefix seems redundant considering the files are in
> >> 'spi' directory.
> >> Just a thought, no objection.
> >
> > When looking at the list of loaded modules (e.g. in an Oops message), the name
> > "spi_xilinx" is much more meaningful than just "xilinx", for example.
>
> Plus, when dropping the prefix, spi_xilinx.ko and gpio-xilinx.ko
> become the same...

In drivers/firewire/Makefile for example, there is this:

firewire-core-y += core-card.o core-cdev.o core-device.o \
core-iso.o core-topology.o core-transaction.o
firewire-ohci-y += ohci.o
firewire-sbp2-y += sbp2.o
firewire-net-y += net.o

Which is impractical though if there are more than a handful of drivers
involved.
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