linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] thermal: sun50i: add thermal driver for h6

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Date:   Mon, 20 May 2019 12:59:31 +0200
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>
To:     Frank Lee <tiny.windzz@...il.com>, rui.zhang@...el.com,
        Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, catalin.marinas@....com,
        will.deacon@....com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
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        Jagan Teki <jagan@...rulasolutions.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] thermal: sun50i: add thermal driver for h6

On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 04:22:39PM +0200, Ondřej Jirman wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 12:34:57AM +0800, Frank Lee wrote:
> > HI,
> >
> > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 2:29 AM Ondřej Jirman <megous@...ous.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Yangtao,
> > >
> > > thank you for work on this driver.
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 02:06:53AM +0800, Frank Lee wrote:
> > > > HI Ondřej,
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 6:16 AM Ondřej Jirman <megous@...ous.com> wrote:
> > > > > > +
> > > > > > +/* Temp Unit: millidegree Celsius */
> > > > > > +static int tsens_reg2temp(struct tsens_device *tmdev,
> > > > > > +                           int reg)
> > > > >
> > > > > Please name all functions so that they are more clearly identifiable
> > > > > in stack traces as belonging to this driver. For example:
> > > > >
> > > > >   sun8i_ths_reg2temp
> > > > >
> > > > > The same applies for all tsens_* functions below. tsens_* is too
> > > > > generic.
> > > >
> > > > Done but no sun8i_ths_reg2temp.
> > > >
> > > > ths_reg2tem() should be a generic func.
> > > > I think it should be suitable for all platforms， so no platform prefix.
> > >
> > > You've missed my point. The driver name is sun8i_thermal and if you get
> > > and oops from the kernel you'll get a stack trace where there are just function
> > > names. If you use too generic function names, it will not be clear which
> > > driver is oopsing.
> > >
> > >   - sun8i_ths_reg2temp will tell you much more clearly where to search than
> > >   - ths_reg2temp
> > >
> > > Of course you can always grep, but most thermal drivers are thermal sensor (ths)
> > > drivers, and if multiple of them used this too-generic naming scheme you'd
> > > have hard time debugging.
> > >
> > > Look at other thermal drivers. They usually encode driver name in the function
> > > names to help with identification (even if these are static driver-local
> > > functions).
> > >
> >
> > Can we change to sunxi_ths_ prefix?
>
> It should probably match the driver name, but yes, that's better.

Not really. This driver will not support all the Allwinner devices, so
sunxi is seriously misleading.

Maxime

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