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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] scsi: add Mylex RAID controller
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 16:10:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170809141049.GB26843@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17589cb4-9f0c-7d15-8c3a-79bd9b14fdef@suse.de>

On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 08:09:11AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 08/05/2017 01:39 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Can you use normal linux style for the code instead of copy and
> > pasting the weird naming and capitalization from the DAC960 driver?
> > 
> Yes; already planned for v2. But first wanted to get some general
> feedback (like: is anyone interested in that at all?)

Yes, please go ahead and kill off the DAC960 driver.

> 
> > Also please use the driver name as prefix for the functions.
> > 
> Ok.
> 
> > Maybe myraid instead of mylex?
> > 
> Nah; I'd rather stick with mylex.
> (Especially as it says 'Mylex' in big fat letters on the board :-)

Naming drivers after the vendor only is usually a bad idea as vendors
have/had multiple products.  In this case we have plenty other drivers
that support Mylex products.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-09 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-02 14:13 [PATCH 0/4] mylex: Replace DAC960 block driver Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-02 14:13 ` [PATCH 1/4] raid_class: Add 'JBOD' RAID level Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-02 14:13 ` [PATCH 2/4] scsi: Add VENDOR_SPECIFIC sense code definitions Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-02 14:13 ` [PATCH 3/4] scsi: add Mylex RAID controller Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-05 11:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-07  6:09     ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-09 14:10       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-08-09 15:11         ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-02 14:13 ` [PATCH 4/4] block: Drop obsolete DAC960 driver Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-09 14:23 ` [PATCH 0/4] mylex: Replace DAC960 block driver Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-09 15:09   ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-01-08 11:25 ` Christoph Hellwig

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