Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:37:06 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2 3/3] misc: rename bmp085 to bmp18x |
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On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 22:08:04 +0100 Eric Andersson <eric.andersson@unixphere.com> wrote:
> The bmp085 chip has been deprecated by the newer bmp18x chip family from > Bosch Sensortec.
And yo risk breaking existing systems by renaming it. Are you going to rename it again when the 285, 385, 485 come out ?
By all means change the description but leave the Kconfig and module name alone. It's gratuitious breakage and config file frobbing otherwise.
Alan
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