[PATCH] drm/ssd130x: Drop _helper prefix from struct drm_*_helper_funcs callbacks

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 21.09.23 um 10:46 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
[...]
> 
>>> Anything else confuses the casual reader. Perhaps the real question is whether
>>> the structures should have "helper" in their name in the first place?
>>
>> Those structures are meant for functions used by the helpers, they are not
>> helper functions.
> 
> That might be how they started, but to me it looks like all these helpers
> are no longer helpers, but part of the core...

They are in library modules. You can write a DRM driver without 
_helper_funcs, see i915. It's just a really hard sell to upstream nowadays.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                          Geert
> 

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