From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
jakub.kicinski@netronome.com, mlxsw@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] devlink: add format requirement for devlink param names
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:43:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191018174304.GE24810@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191018160726.18901-1-jiri@resnulli.us>
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 06:07:26PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
>
> Currently, the name format is not required by the code, however it is
> required during patch review. All params added until now are in-lined
> with the following format:
> 1) lowercase characters, digits and underscored are allowed
> 2) underscore is neither at the beginning nor at the end and
> there is no more than one in a row.
>
> Add checker to the code to require this format from drivers and warn if
> they don't follow.
Hi Jiri
Could you add a reference to where these requirements are derived
from. What can go wrong if they are ignored? I assume it is something
to do with sysfs?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-18 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-18 16:07 [patch net-next] devlink: add format requirement for devlink param names Jiri Pirko
2019-10-18 16:25 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-10-18 16:58 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-10-18 16:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-10-18 16:58 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-10-18 16:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-10-18 16:58 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-10-18 17:43 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2019-10-18 20:08 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-10-18 20:27 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-10-18 21:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-10-19 5:39 ` Jiri Pirko
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