From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/44x: Add hwmon support to Sequoia device tree
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 08:15:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080909121508.GA16041@yoda.jdub.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809091352.29472.matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:52:29PM +0200, Matthias Fuchs wrote:
>On Monday 08 September 2008 18:03, Scott Wood wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 05:07:15PM +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> > How about "dtt"? That's what we use in U-Boot for digital temperature
>> > sensors as well.
>>
>> I vote against any acronyms that are not very well known. Even knowing
>> that it's supposed to be "digital temperature <something>", I can't
>> figure out what the <something> is. Not having the context that it
>> relates to temperature, I wouldn't have a clue what "dtt" is.
>>
>> hwmon is concise and fairly obvious, and unlike "temp" could be
>> meaningfully used with chips that also monitor voltages, fan speeds, etc.
>>
>> -Scott
>
>Uh, thanks Scott. Now we got it. I am fully with you and my "V2" patch
>should make everybody happy.
>
>So, let's apply this patch.
I already have it queued up.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-09 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-04 9:55 [RFC] adding hwmon support to sequoia device tree Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-04 12:25 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-04 12:50 ` Stefan Roese
2008-09-04 14:28 ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-04 14:41 ` [PATCH] powerpc/44x: Add hwmon support to Sequoia " Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-05 10:19 ` Stefan Roese
2008-09-05 14:58 ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-05 16:00 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-06 0:17 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-09-06 12:07 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-08 7:57 ` [PATCH V2] " Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-06 12:40 ` [PATCH] " Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-06 11:49 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-09-06 15:07 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2008-09-08 16:03 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-09 11:52 ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-09 12:15 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2008-09-05 14:27 ` [RFC] adding hwmon support to sequoia " Sean MacLennan
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