From: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
To: "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [char-misc-next 01/12 v3] mei: Rename mei_device to mei_host
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:29:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130212212935.GJ20996@sortiz-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5B8DA87D05A7694D9FA63FD143655C1B01ECF4E9@HASMSX106.ger.corp.intel.com>
Hi Tomas,
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:17:21PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
>
>
> > In preparation for the MEI bus code merge, we rename the mei_device
> > structure to mei_host.
> > struct mei_device will be used for devices on the MEI bus in order to follow
> > exisiting driver model implementations practices.
> >
> I'd like to NACK this name, we use 'host' for the host part of the MEI protocol,
>
> You can use the mei_controller, mei_adapter, and I'm not sure what else can come into mind.
mei_controller sounds good to me.
> I prefer not to break the HW spec language. I prefer to leave it mei_device as after all it's a device on pci bus it's not a pure host controller.
> And call what is on the mei bus mei_cl_dev or mei_app_dev . From the HW perspective it actually
> talks to a client/application residing inside MEI device, it is not always a physical device like NFC.
>
The bus is not physical neither. It's really items that we add to this bus,
watchdog could be the next candidate for example.
> Please let's find something that makes both hw and Linux happy
I still believe it makes sense to use mei_device for what we add to the MEI
bus. I'd be fine with mei_bus_device as well, but that would somehow look
a bit awkward. Greg, Arnd, any preference ?
>From the MEI core code readers perspective, this will mostly be transparent
as only the technology specific parts of the MEI driver (e.g. nfc.c) will use
that mei_device structure.
Cheers,
Samuel.
--
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-12 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-12 18:36 [char-misc-next 00/12 v3] Add MEI bus and NFC device Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 01/12 v3] mei: Rename mei_device to mei_host Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 21:17 ` Winkler, Tomas
2013-02-12 21:29 ` Samuel Ortiz [this message]
2013-02-12 21:38 ` gregkh
2013-02-12 23:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-13 9:39 ` Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-19 13:32 ` Tomas Winkler
2013-02-20 10:57 ` Samuel Ortiz
2013-03-11 10:44 ` Samuel Ortiz
2013-03-11 13:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 02/12 v3] mei: bus: Initial MEI bus type implementation Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 03/12 v3] mei: bus: Implement driver registration Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 04/12 v3] mei: bus: Initial implementation for I/O routines Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 05/12 v3] mei: bus: Add bus related structures to mei_cl Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 06/12 v3] mei: bus: Call bus routines from the core code Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 07/12 v3] mei: bus: Synchronous API for the data transmission Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 08/12 v3] mei: bus: Implement bus driver data setter/getter Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:36 ` [char-misc-next 09/12 v3] mei: nfc: Initial nfc implementation Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:37 ` [char-misc-next 10/12 v3] mei: nfc: Connect also the regular ME client Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:37 ` [char-misc-next 11/12 v3] mei: nfc: Add NFC device to the MEI bus Samuel Ortiz
2013-02-12 18:37 ` [char-misc-next 12/12 v3] mei: nfc: Implement MEI bus IO ops Samuel Ortiz
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