linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 02/10] ufs: sysfs: device descriptor

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Date:   Fri, 2 Feb 2018 00:25:46 +0000
From:   Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@....com>
To:     "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "jaegeuk@...nel.org" <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Stanislav Nijnikov <Stanislav.Nijnikov@....com>
CC:     Alex Lemberg <Alex.Lemberg@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/10] ufs: sysfs: device descriptor

On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 18:15 +0200, Stanislav Nijnikov wrote:
> +enum ufs_desc_param_size {
> +	UFS_PARAM_BYTE_SIZE	= 1,
> +	UFS_PARAM_WORD_SIZE	= 2,
> +	UFS_PARAM_DWORD_SIZE	= 4,
> +	UFS_PARAM_QWORD_SIZE	= 8,
> +};

Please do not copy bad naming choices from the Windows kernel into the Linux
kernel. Using names like WORD / DWORD / QWORD is much less readable than using
the numeric constants 2, 4, 8. Hence my proposal to leave out the above enum
completely.

Thanks,

Bart.