Re: [PATCH] gpu: nova: rename drivers to use kebab-case convention

John Hubbard
2026-03-12T19:22:00Z

On 3/12/26 12:16 PM, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> On Thu Mar 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM CET, Cheng-Yang Chou wrote:
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>> Would that work for you?
>
> I think the module name should ideally match the directoy name, i.e. we have
>
> drivers/gpu/nova-core/
>
> with the module name "nova-core" and
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/nova/
>
> with the module name "nova-drm".

When p

When people do things like lsmod(1), they don't see the directory
path for the module source code, so if the name doesn't include
drm, then no one knows that "nova" implies "nova-drm".

On the other hand, I was OK with just explaining to people that "nova"
is the upper layer kernel module, and that it's the one that does
DRM things.

Which is why I'm merely "OK" with the name change, as opposed to
thinking that it's required.

>
> The reason why this is not .../nova-drm/ already is that I figured it would be a
> bit redundant given that "drm" is already part of the path.
>
> While I don't mind changing this, I wonder what this would mean for the
> Kconfig, CONFIG_DRM_NOVA_DRM? :)

I also worry that we might not have enough DRM's in that
CONFIG item. haha :)

thanks,
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John Hubbard