Re: [PATCH v4 10/11] dma: rename dma_*_writecombine() to dma_*_wc()

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> >> > There's a catch-22 issue here either way, for instance this rename patch has
> >> > been being baked for probably 2 releases already but the difficulty has been
> >> > trying to find the appropriate time to merge it without conflict.
> >> >
> >> > If you do it in the beginning of the merge window, you have to ask yourself in
> >> > what tree it will be done. Since subsystems are topic specific that means that
> >> > subsystem will end up having a conflict at the end of the merge window.
> >>
> >> Yes it's a special case.  I think the best way of handling such things is to get
> >> them in to Linus either right at the end of the merge window or the day after he
> >> releases -rc1.  This is when most people's trees are mostly empty.
> >
> > Yes, that was the plan last time around as well - but the end of the merge window
> > is when we have the least maintainer bandwidth as well ...
> >
> > Anyway, I applied most of the patches (sans the rename), so the rename patch
> > should be a lot simpler to execute at the right moment this time around.
> 
> Ingo, should we try this again some time? I have some ideas on how to
> make these sorts of changes easier to manage in the future, it
> involves having an automatic git rebase option to use Coccinelle for
> you if a patch is annotated to have been completely done with
> Coccinelle, but future tooling is needed for that [0]. In the meantime
> I (or you) can simply run the script at any point in time to catch all
> the names as-is in the kernel / point in time we decide to merge this
> simple rename.
> 
> [0] http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/linux-oven

So beyond the rename, can we also keep the old names as compatibility helpers, 
with a #define mapping them to the new names?

If so then please (re-)send the changes.

Thanks,

	Ingo