* Gadiyar, Anand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080729 22:38]: > > 2008/7/29 Felipe Balbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:07:51PM -0500, Woodruff, Richard wrote: > >>> > How about renaming it to twl92230c before submitting upstream? As far > >>> > as I can tell the name menelaus appears only in linux and makes it > >>> > hard to associate with the real hardware. Does someone know why was > >>> > it renamed that way? > >> > >>> A number does seem more understandable. Though some of these chips live > >>> under a few different numbers. > >> > >> it does seem more understandable, but now that it has been used for so > >> long I guess it would be nasty to change right now. Almost every one > >> here knows that menelaus is the companion chip for omap2 hw. Personally, > >> I never recall the correct number designation for menelaus. > > > > Well, menelaus is a friendly name now that I know what it is but it > > was difficult to find its datasheet without knowing the public name > > used by the manufacturer, it seemed like a nokia's own chip. Also iirc > > if you open the device you will only see the TWLxxx name on the chip. > > > > I see TWLxxx is now mentioned in the Kconfig so I won't insist. > > > > Cheers > > I think it'll be hard for a newbie to figure out what this menelaus is. Google > won't help either, (unless one really thinks there is a connection between > Linux and Greek Mythology ;) ). > > I second renaming the file to TWL92230. Mentioning this in Kconfig is simply > not enough.
Yeah, let's rename it as it's not in mainline yet. I'll apply this series, then the next set of patches can take care of the renaming. Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
