From: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>
To: "John Hubbard" <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Cheng-Yang Chou" <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
<nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org>,
<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<jserv@ccns.ncku.edu.tw>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpu: nova: rename drivers to use kebab-case convention
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:48:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DH12ASFNVZD0.3986IKB8HOVIK@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1398086-ff75-42c8-ad43-97077dd22267@nvidia.com>
On Thu Mar 12, 2026 at 8:21 PM CET, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 3/12/26 12:16 PM, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
>> On Thu Mar 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM CET, Cheng-Yang Chou wrote:
> ...
>>> Would that work for you?
>>
>> I think the module name should ideally match the directoy name, i.e. we have
>>
>> drivers/gpu/nova-core/
>>
>> with the module name "nova-core" and
>>
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nova/
>>
>> with the module name "nova-drm".
>
> When p
>
> When people do things like lsmod(1), they don't see the directory
> path for the module source code, so if the name doesn't include
> drm, then no one knows that "nova" implies "nova-drm".
>
> On the other hand, I was OK with just explaining to people that "nova"
> is the upper layer kernel module, and that it's the one that does
> DRM things.
>
> Which is why I'm merely "OK" with the name change, as opposed to
> thinking that it's required.
Just to clarify, I think we should change the directory name and the module name
to nova-drm; the above is what we'd get with the current patch.
>>
>> The reason why this is not .../nova-drm/ already is that I figured it would be a
>> bit redundant given that "drm" is already part of the path.
>>
>> While I don't mind changing this, I wonder what this would mean for the
>> Kconfig, CONFIG_DRM_NOVA_DRM? :)
>
> I also worry that we might not have enough DRM's in that
> CONFIG item. haha :)
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From: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>
To: "John Hubbard" <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>,
Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>,
Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>, Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>,
nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jserv@ccns.ncku.edu.tw
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpu: nova: rename drivers to use kebab-case convention
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:48:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DH12ASFNVZD0.3986IKB8HOVIK@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1398086-ff75-42c8-ad43-97077dd22267@nvidia.com>
On Thu Mar 12, 2026 at 8:21 PM CET, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 3/12/26 12:16 PM, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
>> On Thu Mar 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM CET, Cheng-Yang Chou wrote:
> ...
>>> Would that work for you?
>>
>> I think the module name should ideally match the directoy name, i.e. we have
>>
>> drivers/gpu/nova-core/
>>
>> with the module name "nova-core" and
>>
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nova/
>>
>> with the module name "nova-drm".
>
> When p
>
> When people do things like lsmod(1), they don't see the directory
> path for the module source code, so if the name doesn't include
> drm, then no one knows that "nova" implies "nova-drm".
>
> On the other hand, I was OK with just explaining to people that "nova"
> is the upper layer kernel module, and that it's the one that does
> DRM things.
>
> Which is why I'm merely "OK" with the name change, as opposed to
> thinking that it's required.
Just to clarify, I think we should change the directory name and the module name
to nova-drm; the above is what we'd get with the current patch.
>>
>> The reason why this is not .../nova-drm/ already is that I figured it would be a
>> bit redundant given that "drm" is already part of the path.
>>
>> While I don't mind changing this, I wonder what this would mean for the
>> Kconfig, CONFIG_DRM_NOVA_DRM? :)
>
> I also worry that we might not have enough DRM's in that
> CONFIG item. haha :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-12 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-10 6:24 [PATCH] gpu: nova: rename drivers to use kebab-case convention Cheng-Yang Chou
2026-03-10 20:41 ` Timur Tabi
2026-03-11 1:34 ` John Hubbard
2026-03-12 18:45 ` Cheng-Yang Chou
2026-03-12 18:45 ` Cheng-Yang Chou
2026-03-12 18:54 ` John Hubbard
2026-03-12 18:54 ` John Hubbard
2026-03-12 19:16 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-12 19:16 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-12 19:21 ` John Hubbard
2026-03-12 19:21 ` John Hubbard
2026-03-12 19:48 ` Danilo Krummrich [this message]
2026-03-12 19:48 ` Danilo Krummrich
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