Re: drivers/w1/: why is dscore.c not ds9490r.c ?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:31:12AM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 01:02, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Hi Evgeniy,
> 
> Hello, Adrian.

Hi Evgeniy,

> > drivers/w1/Makefile in recent 2.6 kernels contains:
> >   obj-$(CONFIG_W1_DS9490)         += ds9490r.o 
> >   ds9490r-objs    := dscore.o
> > 
> > Is there a reason, why dscore.c isn't simply named ds9490r.c ?
> 
> dscore.c is a core function set to work with ds2490 chip.
> ds9490* is built on top of it.
> Any vendor can create it's own w1 bus master using this chip, 
> not ds9490.

if it was built on top of it, I'd have expected ds9490r.o to contain 
additional object files.

How would a different w1 bus master chip look like in 
drivers/w1/Makefile?

> 	Evgeniy Polyakov

cu
Adrian

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