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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.18 V6] drivers: add lcd display support
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:45:56 +0000 Miguel Ojeda wrote:

> Randy, I'm testing right now the V7 of the driver after fixing all
> your mistakes found. Thank you for your deep work: the sharing of the
> buffer was a very good point. Finally I allocated both 2 (the bigger
> and the smaller one at the initialization).
>
> In a few minutes I will send the V7 patch.
>
> About "lcdisplay":
>
> On 9/30/06, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:36:44 +0200 Stefan Richter wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> > > >> patching file drivers/lcddisplay/cfag12864b.c
> > > ...
> > >
> > > What does the D in LCD stand for? I suggest this is named
> > > drivers/lcdisplay/ instead.
> >
> > Yes, someone else mentioned that too.
> > It does mean Display.
> > not a big deal to me in this age of acronyms.
> >
>
> Well, I can rename it, but there is a problem:
>
> How should I write the name in other places?
>
> I mean, for example, in Kconfig:
>
> tristate "KS0108 LCD Controller"
>
> if the ks0108 is a LCD controller, then
>
> tristate "CFAG12864B LCD Display"

That seems very common to me.

> should be the right way to write it?
>
> tristate "CFAG12864B LCDisplay"
>
> seems so ugly to me. Is it? Remember, this applies for all the other
> places in the documentation / source code / ...
>
> IMHO it seems better as LCD Display. Yeah, drivers/lcdisplay/ would be
> nice, but I don't think the same about other places:
>
> LCD Controller.

OK

> LCDisplay??

I would continue to use LCD display (small d).

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~Randy
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