On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 06:58:31PM +0530, Kirti Wankhede wrote: > > Review of all the drivers show that they are either already open coding > > the first/last semantic or are buggy and missing it. All drivers are > > migrated/fixed to the new open/close_device ops and the unused per-FD > > open()/release() ops are deleted. > > Why can't open()/release() ops be reused instead of adding > open_device()/close_device(). It could be done but it would ruin the structure of the patch series, obfuscate the naming of the ops, and complicate backporting as this is a significant semantic difference. Overall when funtionality changes significantly it is better to change the name along with it Jason
