[lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/4] libsensors4: Support more bus types, part 1

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Henrique,

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:53:08 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Is there a good reason why we couldn't rename the "isa" bus to "platform",
> then?  It is far more correct to call every hwmon ISA device a platform
> device, than to call every platform device an ISA device :p

Historical reasons, maybe. Users may be using the chip name filtering
feature of sensors(1) in scripts for example, renaming "isa" to
"platform" would break these for ISA/LPC chips. So the change would
make the upgrade path slightly more difficult.

I don't know if this reason is good enough to not do it, though. I
wonder what other developers and users think about the idea? Anyone
wants to argue in one direction or the other? This is the right time.

-- 
Jean Delvare