Re: [PATCH RFC v1 00/52] drm/crtc: Rename struct drm_crtc::dev to drm_dev

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2023, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> while I debugged an issue in the imx-lcdc driver I was constantly
> irritated about struct drm_device pointer variables being named "dev"
> because with that name I usually expect a struct device pointer.
>
> I think there is a big benefit when these are all renamed to "drm_dev".
> I have no strong preference here though, so "drmdev" or "drm" are fine
> for me, too. Let the bikesheding begin!
>
> Some statistics:
>
> $ git grep -ohE 'struct drm_device *\* *[^ (),;]*' v6.5-rc1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
>       1 struct drm_device *adev_to_drm
>       1 struct drm_device *drm_
>       1 struct drm_device          *drm_dev
>       1 struct drm_device        *drm_dev
>       1 struct drm_device *pdev
>       1 struct drm_device *rdev
>       1 struct drm_device *vdev
>       2 struct drm_device *dcss_drv_dev_to_drm
>       2 struct drm_device **ddev
>       2 struct drm_device *drm_dev_alloc
>       2 struct drm_device *mock
>       2 struct drm_device *p_ddev
>       5 struct drm_device *device
>       9 struct drm_device * dev
>      25 struct drm_device *d
>      95 struct drm_device *
>     216 struct drm_device *ddev
>     234 struct drm_device *drm_dev
>     611 struct drm_device *drm
>    4190 struct drm_device *dev
>
> This series starts with renaming struct drm_crtc::dev to drm_dev. If
> it's not only me and others like the result of this effort it should be
> followed up by adapting the other structs and the individual usages in
> the different drivers.

I think this is an unnecessary change. In drm, a dev is usually a drm
device, i.e. struct drm_device *. As shown by the numbers above.

If folks insist on following through with this anyway, I'm firmly in the
camp the name should be "drm" and nothing else.


BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center