On 04/28/2016 03:30 PM, Peter Meerwald-Stadler wrote: > >>> It's clearly wrong. But the problem is there might be an application that >>> depends on the wrong behavior, the driver has been around for 2.5 years. So >>> it's difficult to fix. We might just go ahead in this case and take the >>> chance that nobody will complain. But if somebody complains this will bring >>> us the wrath of the Linus. >> >> Not if you put it into next, test it, then into a new release as early as >> possible (for -rc1), clearly document that it's got a user visible change >> that should not matter with instructions if anyone hits this as a >> bisection for their app failing to email so you know and can revert it. > > is this the only driver doing it wrong? > > pmeerw@pmeerw:/var/git/linux/drivers/iio$ rgrep "indio_dev->name = dev_name" . > ./imu/inv_mpu6050/inv_mpu_core.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(dev); > ./light/lm3533-als.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev); > ./dac/vf610_dac.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev); > ./dac/stx104.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(dev); > ./dac/lpc18xx_dac.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev); > ./adc/mcp3422.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev); > ./adc/at91-sama5d2_adc.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev); > ./adc/vf610_adc.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev); > ./adc/ti_am335x_adc.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev); > ./adc/nau7802.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev); > ./adc/da9150-gpadc.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(dev); > ./adc/lpc18xx_adc.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev); > ./adc/rockchip_saradc.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev); > ./adc/imx7d_adc.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev); > ./adc/cc10001_adc.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev); > ./adc/berlin2-adc.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev); > ./adc/exynos_adc.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&pdev->dev); > ./temperature/tmp006.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev); > ./chemical/ams-iaq-core.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev); > ./chemical/vz89x.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev); > ./humidity/si7005.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev); > ./humidity/hdc100x.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev); > ./humidity/si7020.c: indio_dev->name = dev_name(&client->dev); Yes, they are all wrong. Mostly of it is just copy'n'paste. We need to be more careful to catch these in the future. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
