[PATCH 5/5] videomode: rename fields

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Tue Mar 12 06:37:03 PDT 2013


Hi Tomi,

Thanks for the patch.

On Tuesday 12 March 2013 12:19:38 Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> Structs videomode and display_timing have rather long field names for
> the timing values. Nothing wrong with that as such, but this patch
> changes them to abbreviations for the following reasons:
> 
> * The timing values often need to be used in calculations, and long
>   field names makes their direct use clumsier.
> 
> * The current names are a bit of a mishmash: some words are used as
>   such, some are shortened, and for some only first letter is used. Some
>   names use underscode, some don't. All this makes it difficult to
>   remember what the field names are.
> 
> * The abbreviations used in this patch are very common, and there
>   shouldn't be any misunderstanding about their meaning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ti.com>
> Cc: Steffen Trumtrar <s.trumtrar at pengutronix.de>
> ---

I have no strong opinion on this, but I find the existing names easier to 
read. I might be biased by having read them often though.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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