Renaming of devices in 2.6.31
Lars-Peter Clausen
lars at metafoo.de
Sun Nov 22 18:19:31 CET 2009
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Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have seen some questionable renaming of platform devices in
> kernel 2.6.31 and want to know your reasoning behind things like
>
> gta02-pm-bt.0 gta02-pm-gps.0 gta02-pm-gsm.0 and
> gta02-vibrator
>
> which is obviously incorrect as the same devices exist on the
> Neo1973 (gta01, if you remember...) as well.
>
> Can you please rename this back to the original name?
>
Hi
Yeay, this is an historically grown issue. And I've already said that
in retrospect it was stupid.
But:
pm-bt is gone anyway
pm-gps is gone soon
pm-gsm might also go away, but if it's not it'll be renamed back.
gta02-vibrator is called gta02::vibrator. And this will stay.
- - Lars
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