Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:33:29 +0200 | From | Lars-Peter Clausen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 14/38] iio: accel: st: Append _accel to accelerator sensor device names |
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On 09/14/2013 02:27 PM, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On 09/14/13 13:14, Jonathan Cameron wrote: >> On 09/10/13 13:49, Lee Jones wrote: >>> Some of ST's sensors are appended with their sensor type and some >>> are not. For consistency we're extending the same naming convention >>> throughout. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> >> Honestly I don't care either way on these, but consistency would definitely >> be good so applied to the togreg branch of iio.git >> >> Thanks, > > Actually change of plan. I'm going to hold off on these as this an ABI change. > Iritating though having these as completely inconsistent is, changing this > will change device identification from userspace which is not a good idea. > > Sorry Lee, but we really shouldn't do this. I should have picked up on this > in the original driver reviews but that's hindsight for you.
I think those with the suffix are the ones where you have accel and gyro in the same package, the ones without the suffix are pure accelerometers.
- Lars
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