[RFC PATCH 0/6] Rename functions to match their entry points

Janusz Krzysztofik janusz.krzysztofik at linux.intel.com
Wed Jul 10 12:54:59 UTC 2019


On Wednesday, July 10, 2019 2:47:08 PM CEST Chris Wilson wrote:
> 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.

OK, I'll fix it, as well as other issues pointed out by dim, and resubmit.

Thanks,
Janusz

> -Chris
> 






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