From: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>,
Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>, Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>,
nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jserv@ccns.ncku.edu.tw
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpu: nova: rename drivers to use kebab-case convention
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:45:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abMJsUpvcUrITCVi@eric-acer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99af9d88-05a0-4dcd-85f4-9d5fe9ee6744@nvidia.com>
Hi John,
On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 06:34:51PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 3/9/26 11:24 PM, Cheng-Yang Chou wrote:
> > - name: c"nova",
> > + name: c"nova-drm",
> > desc: c"Nvidia Graphics",
>
> hmm, as long as we are fooling around with names here, I see that
> this should be "NVIDIA Graphics and Compute", really.
>
> Obviously that can be done separately, though.
Ok.
>
> > };
> >
> > -const NOVA_CORE_MODULE_NAME: &CStr = c"NovaCore";
> > +const NOVA_CORE_MODULE_NAME: &CStr = c"nova-core";
> > const AUXILIARY_NAME: &CStr = c"nova-drm";
> >
> > kernel::auxiliary_device_table!(
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/nova.rs b/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/nova.rs
> > index 8893e58ee0db..1fd454c7e0df 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/nova.rs
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nova/nova.rs
> > @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
> >
> > kernel::module_auxiliary_driver! {
> > type: NovaDriver,
> > - name: "Nova",
> > + name: "nova-drm",
>
> Well, but now it is out of sync with the file name: nova.rs.
>
> You should change both, or neither, I'm thinking.
I think renaming the file to nova_drm.rs would better reflect the
driver's identity now that the module name is nova-drm, making it easier
for readers to associate the source file with the driver.
Would that work for you?
--
Thanks,
Cheng-Yang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-12 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-10 6:24 [PATCH] gpu: nova: rename drivers to use kebab-case convention Cheng-Yang Chou
2026-03-10 20:41 ` Timur Tabi
2026-03-11 1:34 ` John Hubbard
2026-03-12 18:45 ` Cheng-Yang Chou [this message]
2026-03-12 18:54 ` John Hubbard
2026-03-12 19:16 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-12 19:21 ` John Hubbard
2026-03-12 19:48 ` Danilo Krummrich
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