From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757415Ab3BKOap (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:30:45 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f47.google.com ([209.85.160.47]:34530 "EHLO mail-pb0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757302Ab3BKOao (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:30:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:30:51 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Samuel Ortiz Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Tomas Winkler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [char-misc-next 01/11 V2] mei: bus: Initial MEI bus type implementation Message-ID: <20130211143051.GA1017@kroah.com> References: <1360326504-17041-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com> <20130208235341.GA24127@kroah.com> <20130210032555.GG20996@sortiz-mobl> <201302111150.26785.arnd@arndb.de> <20130211134612.GO20996@sortiz-mobl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130211134612.GO20996@sortiz-mobl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 02:46:12PM +0100, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > > You already have a 'struct mei_device', which refers to the PCI device > > that owns the bus, and has clients attached to it. While it may be > > a little confusing to people that already worked with the current > > mei code, I think it would help to rename the existing 'mei_device' > > to 'mei_host' or something else that feels appropriate, and introduce > > the new structure as 'mei_device' derived from 'struct device', again > > matching what most other subsystems do. > I understand, and I agree it would make sense. As we're aiming at having this > patchset merged during the next merge window, would it be ok to have this > renaming phase as a follow up patch ? Do you mean for 3.9? Sorry, my trees are now closed for new stuff like this for 3.9, this will all have to wait for 3.10, so you have plenty of time to get it right. No need to rush. thanks, greg k-h