Re: [PATCH] USB: rename usb_buffer_alloc() and usb_buffer_free()

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 03:27:36PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Daniel Mack wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:17:25PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > > For more clearance what the functions actually do,
> > > 
> > >   usb_buffer_alloc() is renamed to usb_alloc_coherent()
> > >   usb_buffer_free()  is renamed to usb_free_coherent()
> > > 
> > > They should only be used in code which really needs DMA coherency.
> > > 
> > > All call sites have been changed accordingly, except for staging
> > > drivers.
> > 
> > Is this ok? As it's quite big, I think it should be merged soon if there
> > are no objections.
> 
> I have no objection.  All it does is rename a couple of functions.  
> There's no reason for this to go into 2.6.34; it can wait for the next 
> merge window.

I think I will split this up into the following set of patches:
	- rename the functions and add a macro for the old names
	- rename all in-kernel usages
	- rename the staging tree usages
	- remove the macros

the first patch can go in to Linus's tree now, to make it easier for the
2nd and 3rd patches to live in linux-next easier as we might need to
look at the usages in other development trees before we can add the last
one.

Sound good?

thanks,

greg k-h