Re: [PATCH 4/9] staging: vc04_services: Shorten helper function name

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-11-23T13:15:55Z

On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 04:51:51AM -0500, Umang Jain wrote:
> Shorten the helper log_category_str() to log_cat().
> Going forwards, this will be used at multiple places with
> dev_dbg().
>
> No functiional changes intended in this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Umang Jain <umang.jain@ideasonboard.com>
> ---
> .../vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.h | 10 +++++-----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.h b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.h
> index 161358db457c..cc7bb6ca832a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.h
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ enum vchiq_log_category {
> VCHIQ_SUSPEND,
> };
>
> -static inline const char *log_category_str(enum vchiq_log_category c)
> +static inline const char *log_cat(enum vchiq_log_category c)

This is a bad name for a subsystem-wide function name, why is this
needed at all?

thanks,

greg k-h