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

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On 09/16/13 13:03, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 09/16/2013 11:21 AM, Denis CIOCCA wrote:
>> Hi Lars,
>>> 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.
>> Yes You are right. I've used this kind of logic... What do you think about?
>>
>> Denis
> 
> Seems sensible to me.

How about a comment to this effect in the code so that we keep it like this?
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