linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

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Message-ID: <457C8791.9000201@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:17:53 -0500
From:	Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...hat.com>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
CC:	Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...planet.net>,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Erik Mouw <erik@...ddisk-recovery.com>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

Stefan Richter wrote:
> Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
...
>> I'm not changing it just yet, but I'm not too attached to fw_
>> and I think that ieee1394_ will work better.  The modutil tools
>> already use ieee1394 for device_id tables.
> [...]
> 
> Alas the length of "ieee1394_" gets in the way of readability.

It's not too bad and it's only for exported symbols:

[krh@...ky fw]$ grep EXPORT *.c | wc -l
27

and using the same prefix as the device_id struct will be nice.  When I 
submitted the ieee1394_device_id patch I originally proposed hpsb_device_id, 
but nobody knew what that meant so we went with the ieee1394_device_id we have 
now.  Oh, and net/ieee80211 uses ieee80211 as prefix, so it wont be the 
longest subsytem prefix :).  Plus I want to go throught the list of exported 
symbols, some of the names can be trimmed a bit.

Having said that, using drivers/firewire and the fw_ prefix, as Marcel 
suggests, works too.  It's what bluetooth and infiniband does, so there is 
some precedence there.

...
> I would therefore prefer "fw_" or "hpsb_" over any of the other suggestions
> made here:
>   - ieee1394_ makes sense in linux/mod_devicetable.h but is too long
>     otherwise.
>   - fiwi_, frwr_, and fwire_ are artificial abbreviations which come very
>     unnatural. (fw_ is an artificial abbreviation too but is not as awkward
>     as the others. hpsb_ is not just an abbreviation, it is an established
>     acronym of the canonical name of the bus.)

Oh, I don't know... for the longest time I didn't know what hpsb meant, and 
high performance serial bus is pretty generic sounding... are we talking about 
usb, sata, ieee1394 or rs232?  Ok, I guess rs232 is neither hp or b.  But 
seriously, except for the current stack, I've never seen the hpsb abbreviation 
used much.

Kristian

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