On 25/07/20 6:20 pm, Michał Mirosław wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 06:01:19PM +0530, Rohit K Bharadwaj wrote: >> On 25/07/20 5:31 pm, Michał Mirosław wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 11:59:39AM +0530, Rohit K Bharadwaj wrote: >>>> changed usage of slave (which is deprecated) to secondary without breaking the driver >>> >>> The relevant I2C and SMBus standards use master/slave terminology. Why are >>> you changing the names to something unfamiliar? >>> >>> If the reason are the recent coding-style changes, then please note they >>> are about avoiding introducing *NEW* uses of the specific words and not >>> about blindly replacing existing occurrences. >> >> I'm really sorry sir, I didn't knew about this, yes the reason for my change is according to the script checkpatch.pl to suit the coding style, I would try to fix some other coding style related issues if this patch seems to be a bad idea. > > I didn't know checkpatch does this (it doesn't in current Linus' master > tree). I can see there is a commit in next adding this, but seems that > it uses a test far from the original coding-style wording... > > Best Regards > Michał Mirosław > yes sir, in the linux-next tree, when I ran the script on this file it showed me it had style issues and the usage of slave is deprecated and it suggested me to replace it with secondary or target. and hence I made this patch, please do let me know if this patch can be acceptable or not. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
