[PATCH v4] staging: nvec: change usage of slave to secondary

[Michał Mirosław]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 06:01:19PM +0530, Rohit K Bharadwaj wrote:
> On 25/07/20 5:31 pm, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 11:59:39AM +0530, Rohit K Bharadwaj wrote:
> >> changed usage of slave (which is deprecated) to secondary without breaking the driver
> > 
> > The relevant I2C and SMBus standards use master/slave terminology. Why are
> > you changing the names to something unfamiliar?
> > 
> > If the reason are the recent coding-style changes, then please note they
> > are about avoiding introducing *NEW* uses of the specific words and not
> > about blindly replacing existing occurrences.
> 
> I'm really sorry sir, I didn't knew about this, yes the reason for my change is according to the script checkpatch.pl to suit the coding style, I would try to fix some other coding style related issues if this patch seems to be a bad idea.

I didn't know checkpatch does this (it doesn't in current Linus' master
tree).  I can see there is a commit in next adding this, but seems that
it uses a test far from the original coding-style wording...

Best Regards
Michał Mirosław