[PATCH 01/30] drm: Introduce drm_bridge_init()

Sam Ravnborg sam at ravnborg.org
Tue Nov 26 19:24:45 UTC 2019


Hi Mihail.

> Ack, but with one caveat: bridge->dev is the struct drm_device that is
> the bridge client, we need to add a bridge->device (patch 29 in this
> series) which is the struct device that will manage the bridge lifetime.
Other places uses the variable name "drm" for a drm_device.
This is less confusion than the "dev" name.

It seems a recent trend to use the variable name "drm" so you can find a
lot of places using "dev".

bike-shedding - but also about readability.

	Sam


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