Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] platform/x86: Rename silead_dmi to touchscreen_dmi

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 11:07:03AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Not only silead touchscreens need some extra info not available in the
> > ACPI tables to work properly. X86 devices with a Chipone ICN8505 chip also
> > need some DMI based extra configuration.
> >
> > There is no reason to have separate dmi config code per touchscreen
> > controller vendor. This commit renames silead_dmi to a more generic
> > touchscreen_dmi name (and Kconfig option) in preparation of adding
> > info for tablets with an ICN8505 based touchscreen.
> >
> > Note there are no functional changes all code changes are limited to
> > removing references to silead where these are no longer applicable.
> >
> 
> I have no objections from my side, though consider the following:
> - I would like to be in sync with Darren on this
> - make oldconfig will be broken after your change for existing users
> - the usual pattern in kernel that we don't rename drivers; I guess
> here we are on the safe side b/c this driver is used standalone
> 
> Taking above into attention, and assuming it will go via some other tree,
> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>

This driver is all kinds of a special case, so no objection here either. :-)

-- 
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center



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