From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Pinchart Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:37:03 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] videomode: rename fields Message-Id: <16625567.P7GdYge43z@avalon> List-Id: References: <1363083578-17062-1-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> <1363083578-17062-5-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> In-Reply-To: <1363083578-17062-5-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Tomi Valkeinen Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Steffen Trumtrar Hi Tomi, Thanks for the patch. On Tuesday 12 March 2013 12:19:38 Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > Structs videomode and display_timing have rather long field names for > the timing values. Nothing wrong with that as such, but this patch > changes them to abbreviations for the following reasons: > > * The timing values often need to be used in calculations, and long > field names makes their direct use clumsier. > > * The current names are a bit of a mishmash: some words are used as > such, some are shortened, and for some only first letter is used. Some > names use underscode, some don't. All this makes it difficult to > remember what the field names are. > > * The abbreviations used in this patch are very common, and there > shouldn't be any misunderstanding about their meaning. > > Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen > Cc: Steffen Trumtrar > --- I have no strong opinion on this, but I find the existing names easier to read. I might be biased by having read them often though. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart