Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Rename acpi_scan_device_not_present() to be about enumeration

["Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 10:15:07AM +0000, Miguel Luis wrote:
> Hi Russell,
> 
> > On 20 Oct 2023, at 18:47, Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> > 
> > acpi_scan_device_not_present() is called when a device in the
> > hierarchy is not available for enumeration. Historically enumeration
> > was only based on whether the device was present.
> > 
> > To add support for only enumerating devices that are both present
> > and enabled, this helper should be renamed. It was only ever about
> > enumeration, rename it acpi_scan_device_not_enumerated().
> > 
> > No change in behaviour is intended.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
> 
> Fixes: 443fc8202272 ("ACPI / hotplug: Rework generic code to handle suprise removals”) ?

I'm not sure a patch that is merely renaming a function should ever
have a Fixes tag, since it's just a naming issue, it doesn't fix a
bug, change functionality or anything like that.

I would suggest that there would need to be good reason why such a
patch should be backported to stable kernels - for example, something
else that does fix a user visible bug requires this change.

Thanks.

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