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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>,
	linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: unexport gpiod_set_transitory()
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 15:45:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZPXRexqFQx9Q2BiR@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMRc=MdzfvnYJt-SkMzYEwp4rKsaJLN_uoBNQ0seuai+im_b=Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 01:32:38PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 1:19 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:

...

> This is still inconsistent with the rest of the public symbols -
> especially those in gpio/driver.h. My long-term plan - before making
> locking great again - is to limit the usage of any gpiochip_ symbols
> to GPIO providers (as the chip is not guaranteed to be valid, unlike
> gpio_device) and provide a bunch of gpio_device_ or gpiodev_
> interfaces for use by those who *really* need it. Now am I going to
> make up two distinct prefixes for public and non-public APIs? That
> will be even more confusing IMO.
> 
> Just like in C++ you don't make up special names for public vs private
> methods except for some deranged coding styles that also require you
> to name arguments like "in_foo" and "out_bar".

Yeah, I understand your point of view on this, but as I said
"disagree and commit" (used to be corporate value at some point :-).

On my side I criticized and proposed... It's your turn what to do
with that, I'm not insisting on my way, I'm just telling I don't like
yours, but I will survive, no hard feelings :-)

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



      reply	other threads:[~2023-09-04 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-03 19:06 [PATCH] gpiolib: unexport gpiod_set_transitory() Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-09-04  7:32 ` Linus Walleij
2023-09-04 10:19 ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-09-04 11:14   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-09-04 11:19     ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-09-04 11:32       ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-09-04 12:45         ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]

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