Re: [PATCH 14/38] iio: accel: st: Append _accel to accelerator sensor device names

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On 09/14/2013 02:27 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 09/14/13 13:14, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 09/10/13 13:49, Lee Jones wrote:
>>> Some of ST's sensors are appended with their sensor type and some
>>> are not. For consistency we're extending the same naming convention
>>> throughout.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Honestly I don't care either way on these, but consistency would definitely
>> be good so applied to the togreg branch of iio.git
>>
>> Thanks,
> 
> Actually change of plan. I'm going to hold off on these as this an ABI change.
> Iritating though having these as completely inconsistent is, changing this
> will change device identification from userspace which is not a good idea.
> 
> Sorry Lee, but we really shouldn't do this. I should have picked up on this
> in the original driver reviews but that's hindsight for you.

I think those with the suffix are the ones where you have accel and gyro in
the same package, the ones without the suffix are pure accelerometers.

- Lars

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