Re: [PATCH v3 03/18] driver core: platform: Rename platform_dma_configure()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 06:13:01AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 08:53:07AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 06, 2021 at 09:58:48AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> > > The platform_dma_configure() is shared between platform and amba bus
> > > drivers. Rename the common helper to firmware_dma_configure() so that
> > > both platform and amba bus drivers could customize their dma_configure
> > > callbacks.
> > 
> > Please, if you are going to call these functions "firmware_" then move
> > them to the drivers/firmware/ location, they do not belong in
> > drivers/base/platform.c anymore, right?
> 
> firmware seems rather misnamed anyway, amba doesn't reall have anything
> to do with "firmware".

Then the name is not a good one and should be called something else :)