From: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
To: "Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Nathan Chancellor" <nathan@kernel.org>,
"Nicolas Schier" <nsc@kernel.org>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
Timur Tabi <ttabi@nvidia.com>, Zhi Wang <zhiw@nvidia.com>,
Eliot Courtney <ecourtney@nvidia.com>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, nova-gpu@lists.linux.dev,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] gpu: nova-core: rename module from nova_core to nova-core
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:07:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0301888-940a-49a4-8a3a-47960162819f@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260430-nova-exports-v1-3-7ca31664e983@nvidia.com>
On 4/30/2026 10:55 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> Rename the kbuild module target from `nova_core.o` to `nova-core.o`.
> This avoids a name collision between the module target and the Rust
> crate object (`nova_core.o` from `nova_core.rs`), allowing the driver to
> be built as a composite module.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig | 2 +-
> drivers/gpu/nova-core/Makefile | 4 +++-
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig
> index d8456f8eaa05..f918f69e0599 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Kconfig
> @@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ config NOVA_CORE
>
> This driver is work in progress and may not be functional.
>
> - If M is selected, the module will be called nova_core.
> + If M is selected, the module will be called nova-core.
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Makefile b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Makefile
> index 2d78c50126e1..1f794baadc86 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/nova-core/Makefile
> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>
> -obj-$(CONFIG_NOVA_CORE) += nova_core.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_NOVA_CORE) += nova-core.o
I think a more descriptive name would be better than relying on dashes versus
versus underscores, that's super confusing, how about:
> +
> +nova-core-y := nova_core.o
>
Lets make this: `nova-core-y := nova-core-mod.o`?
thanks,
--
Joel fernandes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-30 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-30 14:55 [PATCH 0/7] gpu: drm: nova: enable calling into nova-core Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 1/7] scripts: modpost: detect and report truncated buf_printf() output Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 2/7] scripts: modpost: increase buf_printf's buffer size Alexandre Courbot
2026-05-01 13:02 ` Gary Guo
2026-05-01 15:31 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 3/7] gpu: nova-core: rename module from nova_core to nova-core Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-30 15:07 ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2026-05-01 3:25 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-05-01 10:38 ` John Hubbard
2026-05-01 12:31 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 4/7] gpu: nova-core: export Rust symbols for dependent modules Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-30 15:22 ` Joel Fernandes
2026-05-01 3:30 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-05-01 10:24 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 5/7] gpu: nova-core: emit Rust metadata " Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 6/7] gpu: drm: nova: build after nova-core metadata Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-30 14:55 ` [PATCH POC 7/7] drm: nova: demonstrate interaction with nova-core Alexandre Courbot
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