linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: rename getChipType to get_chip

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Message-ID: <20160924210928.GA5246@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:09:28 +0300
From:   Moshe Green <mgmoshes@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com, teddy.wang@...iconmotion.com,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: sm750fb: rename getChipType to get_chip_type

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 02:13:52PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 09:15:45PM +0300, Moshe Green wrote:
> > Rename CamelCased function getChipType to get_chip_type.
> > This issue was found by checkpatch.pl
> 
> As this is a global function, can you rename it to something like
> "sm750_get_chip_type()"?  Having a driver-specific function called
> get_chip_type() is not good.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Will do.
Thanks,

Moshe Green