Re: trigger named just "tx" in drivers/net/wireless/atmel/at76c50x-usb.c

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Dec 09 2018 - 15:08:50 EST


On Mon 2018-12-03 10:45:01, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> writes:
>
> > While grepping something else, I came across LED trigger that is named
> > just "tx".
> >
> > That's a bit too generic afaict?
> >
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/atmel/at76c50x-usb.c
> > @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ static int at76_usbdfu_download(struct usb_device
> > *udev, u8 *buf, u32 size,
> > static int tx_activity;
> > static void at76_ledtrig_tx_timerfunc(struct timer_list *unused);
> > static DEFINE_TIMER(ledtrig_tx_timer, at76_ledtrig_tx_timerfunc);
> > -DEFINE_LED_TRIGGER(ledtrig_tx);
> > +DEFINE_LED_TRIGGER(ledtrig_tx); /* Hey! "tx" is a bit too generic
> > name for a trigger! */
>
> This is an ancient driver, my guess is that nobody uses it anymore. I
> should orphan it and maybe even remove it at some point.

Are you willing to add a fixme there? I really don't want people to
copy that example.
Pavel

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