[RFC PATCH 0/6] Rename functions to match their entry points
Chris Wilson
chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Wed Jul 10 12:47:08 UTC 2019
Quoting Janusz Krzysztofik (2019-07-10 13:36:25)
> Need for this was identified while working on split of driver unbind
> path into _remove() and _release() parts. Consistency in function
> naming has been recognized as helpful when trying to work out which
> phase the code is in.
>
> What I'm still not sure about is desired depth of that modification -
> how deep should we go down with renaming to not override meaningfull
> function names. Please advise if you think still more deep renaming
> makes sense.
I did a double take over "driver_release" but by the end I was in
agreement.
The early_release though, that is worth a bit of artistic license to say
early_probe pairs with late_release.
-Chris
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