linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4] RTC: SWARM I2C board initialization

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Message-ID: <20080508045741.GC25531@linux-mips.org>
Date:	Thu, 8 May 2008 05:57:41 +0100
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	rtc-linux@...glegroups.com, i2c@...sensors.org,
	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4] RTC: SWARM I2C board initialization

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:25:08PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > > > i2c-foo.c is consistently used for i2c bus driver themselves so far.
> > > > It's somewhat confusing to see you name platform code that way. It's
> > > > also redundant, given that the file lives in the swarm platform
> > > > directory. May I suggest naming this file just
> > > > arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/i2c.c? Other architectures (cris, arm) are doing
> > > > this already.

>  I can do that and I have considered it while preparing the change.  What
> convinced me not to use a name that is already present elsewhere in the
> tree is the confusion that it sometimes causes.  For example during a
> debugging session GDB only reports the file name and not the leading
> pathname (and some people do run GDB over the kernel).  Of course the
> actual file can still be chased with some `find' and `grep' scriptery, but
> why to create a problem in the first place?
> 
>  I consider repeated file names throughout a tree of a single program a 
> namespace pollution similar to one with repeated static symbol names.  
> While syntactically valid and working, it asks for unnecessary confusion.
> 
>  This is my point of view, but I can see others may not necessarily follow
> it.  I am fine with changing the name to i2c.c as it is unlikely I will
> run GDB over it. ;-)

I've started using unique prefixes such as ip22- or ip27- a while ago.
And why not following that example with arch/mips/sibyte/swarm/swarm-i2c.c
or similar?

  Ralf
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