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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/6] soundwire: sysfs: move sdw_slave_dev_attr_group into the existing list of groups
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 08:12:10AM +0100, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>
> > Makes sense. I won't say "looks good" as this file has "slave" all over
> > the place, but I checked and it entered the kernel just before the
> > CodingStyle changed.
>
> SoundWire 1.2.1 introduced the terms "Manager" and "Peripheral", I had a
> patchset to rename everything maybe two years ago already but it's been
> difficult to add without getting in the way of development and backports.

Don't worry about backports for stable, we can handle that. Development
for fixes or changes should NEVER worry about stable kernels, worst
case, we can just take all of the same changes into them, no problem.

> Maybe a gradual replacement makes more sense, not sure how to go about this.

Just rename it all.

thanks,

greg k-h

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