On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:11:01PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:35:59 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>> > This driver handles the variants pca9534-pca9539, so it chose the name
>> > "pca953x". However, there is a led driver which decided on the same
>> > name. As a result, those two can't be loaded at the same time. Add a
>> > subsystem prefix to make the driver name unique. Device matching will
>> > not suffer, because both are I2C drivers which match using a
>> > i2c_device_id-table which is not altered.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> > drivers/gpio/pca953x.c | 2 +-
>> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c b/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c
>> > index 0451d7a..b30dd0b 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c
>> > @@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ static int pca953x_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
>> >
>> > static struct i2c_driver pca953x_driver = {
>> > .driver = {
>> > - .name = "pca953x",
>> > + .name = "gpio-pca953x",
>> > },
>> > .probe = pca953x_probe,
>> > .remove = pca953x_remove,
>>
>> With the proposed change to the leds-pca9532 driver, you could leave
>> this one alone, for the sake of simplicity and consistency with the
>> pca953x, pcf857x and max732x gpio drivers.
>>
>> But I am not objecting to this change, if you like it.
>
> I am fine with your suggestion.
All right, I'll ignore this patch then.
g.
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