Re: [patch net-next v3 3/3] devlink: add format requirement for devlink object names

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 09:20:07AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 10/21/19 8:26 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> > From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
> > 
> > Currently, the name format is not required by the code, however it is
> > required during patch review. All params added until now are in-lined
> > with the following format:
> > 1) lowercase characters, digits and underscored are allowed
> > 2) underscore is neither at the beginning nor at the end and
> >    there is no more than one in a row.
> > 
> > Add checker to the code to require this format from drivers and warn if
> > they don't follow. This applies to params, resources, reporters,
> > traps, trap groups, dpipe tables and dpipe fields.
> > 
> 
> This seems random and without any real cause. There is no reason to
> exclude dash and uppercase for example in the names.

Hi David

The commit message is out of date. Upper case is now allowed.

    Andrew