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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
To: "Daniel W. S. Almeida" <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	sean@mess.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: We should settle on a name for the new DVB virtual driver.
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:45:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200325214536.387c9494@coco.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66165ca2-1e48-2dbf-cf5b-c3b583e7d0c6@gmail.com>

Em Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:00:30 -0300
"Daniel W. S. Almeida" <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com> escreveu:

> It has come to my attention that this patch  - 
> https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/62494/  - has reorganized a few 
> directories in the media tree, pushing test drivers into their own 
> directory.

True. Please notice that this was not applied yet. It may suffer some
changes, but yeah, it makes sense to have a separate directory for
test drivers.

> In an effort to reduce the amount of renaming down the line, and also to 
> adapt to the new structure presented above I think it is a good time to 
> come up with a name for the DVB virtual driver. It might also be a good 
> idea to move it to its own directory as well while we're at it.

Yes, agreed.

> My personal preference is vidvb, which is somewhat in line with the 
> naming scheme used by other virtual drivers for the media subsystem.

"vidvb" works for me, but maybe "vidtv" would even be better.

Regards,
Mauro

Thanks,
Mauro

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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
To: "Daniel W. S. Almeida" <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org, sean@mess.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] We should settle on a name for the new DVB virtual driver.
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:45:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200325214536.387c9494@coco.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66165ca2-1e48-2dbf-cf5b-c3b583e7d0c6@gmail.com>

Em Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:00:30 -0300
"Daniel W. S. Almeida" <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com> escreveu:

> It has come to my attention that this patch  - 
> https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/62494/  - has reorganized a few 
> directories in the media tree, pushing test drivers into their own 
> directory.

True. Please notice that this was not applied yet. It may suffer some
changes, but yeah, it makes sense to have a separate directory for
test drivers.

> In an effort to reduce the amount of renaming down the line, and also to 
> adapt to the new structure presented above I think it is a good time to 
> come up with a name for the DVB virtual driver. It might also be a good 
> idea to move it to its own directory as well while we're at it.

Yes, agreed.

> My personal preference is vidvb, which is somewhat in line with the 
> naming scheme used by other virtual drivers for the media subsystem.

"vidvb" works for me, but maybe "vidtv" would even be better.

Regards,
Mauro

Thanks,
Mauro
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-25 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-25 20:00 We should settle on a name for the new DVB virtual driver Daniel W. S. Almeida
2020-03-25 20:00 ` [Linux-kernel-mentees] " Daniel W. S. Almeida
2020-03-25 20:45 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2020-03-25 20:45   ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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