Re: [PATCH vRFC 3/8] treewide: rename firmware_request_platform()

[Mukesh Ojha]

On 2/26/2024 6:39 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 04:22:09PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> > On 2/24/2024 11:06 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:42:35AM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 04:33:40PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 07:15:45AM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 07:21:31AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 11:30:28PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> > > > > > > > Rename firmware_request_platform() to request_firmware_platform()
> > > > > > > > to be more concrete and align with the name of other request
> > > > > > > > firmware family functions.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Sorry, but no, it should be "noun_verb" for public functions.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > News to me, do we have this documented somewhere?
> > > > >
> > > > > Not really, but searching makes it nicer.
> > > > >
> > > > > And yes, I violated this in the past in places, and have regretted it...
> > > >
> > > > Care to share a few examples of regret?
> > >
> > > 	get_device()
> > > 	put_device()
> > > 	kill_device()
> > >
> > > vs. a saner:
> > > 	kobject_get()
> > > 	kobject_put()
> > > 	kobject_del()
> > >
> > > Learn from the mistakes of my youth please :)
> >
> > Thanks for the history.,
> > In that case, should we fix this verb_noun cases ?
> >
> > request_firmware()
> > request_firmware_into_buf()
> > request_firmware_nowarn()
> > request_firmware_direct()
> > request_firmware_cache()
> > request_partial_firmware_into_buf()
> > release_firmware()
>
> That would provide consistency, right?

Yes, Below names look better..

firmware_request()
firmware_request_into_buf()
firmware_request_nowarn()
firmware_request_direct()
firmware_request_cache()
firmware_request_partial_into_buf()
firmware_release()

@Luis/Others, Can we do this change ?

-Mukesh
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h