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From: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: hal: Remove camelcase
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2021 19:51:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53939680.76uNBjAIv9@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YG3rihKrS2tvr1tS@kroah.com>

On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 7:27:38 PM CEST Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 06:30:00PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > Remove camelcase. Issue detected by checkpatch.pl. For now, change only
> > names of static functions in order to not break the driver's code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c | 44 ++++++++++++------------
> >  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c
> > index b1f02bb9f0a9..5e28818e58e0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c
> > @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
> >  /*  */
> >  /*  Creadted by Roger, 2011.01.31. */
> >  /*  */
> > -static void HalSdioGetCmdAddr8723BSdio(
> > +static void hal_sdio_get_cmd_addr_8723b_sdio(
> >  	struct adapter *adapter,
> >  	u8 device_id,
> >  	u32 addr,
> > @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static u8 get_deviceid(u32 addr)
> >  
> >  /*
> >   * Ref:
> > - *HalSdioGetCmdAddr8723BSdio()
> > + *hal_sdio_get_cmd_addr_8723b_sdio()
> 
> What does this comment even mean?

Who can tell? Maybe we should ask the author :(

> 
> I think you can delete it.
> 

Mission accomplished. I'm about to send a new patch.

> But really, that's a crazy function name length, can you make it any
> shorter?

Device drivers developers have their own "style": functions names must have 25 characters or more! 

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 





  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-07 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-07 16:30 [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: hal: Remove camelcase Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-04-07 17:27 ` Greg KH
2021-04-07 17:51   ` Fabio M. De Francesco [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-04-12 21:02 Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-04-12 21:05 ` Julia Lawall
2021-04-12 21:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-13  7:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-13  9:12   ` Fabio M. De Francesco

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