linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/30] drm: Introduce drm_bridge

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Date:   Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:31:41 +0100
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Mihail Atanassov <Mihail.Atanassov@....com>
Cc:     Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, nd <nd@....com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/30] drm: Introduce drm_bridge_init()

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:05:56AM +0000, Mihail Atanassov wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 November 2019 19:24:45 GMT Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Hi Mihail.
> 
> Hi Sam,
> 
> > 
> > > Ack, but with one caveat: bridge->dev is the struct drm_device that is
> > > the bridge client, we need to add a bridge->device (patch 29 in this
> > > series) which is the struct device that will manage the bridge lifetime.
> > Other places uses the variable name "drm" for a drm_device.
> > This is less confusion than the "dev" name.
> > 
> > It seems a recent trend to use the variable name "drm" so you can find a
> > lot of places using "dev".
> > 
> > bike-shedding - but also about readability.
> > 
> > 	Sam
> > 
> 
> I'm okay with the idea, I can do a follow-up patch or series for the
> rename; I expect it would be a bit hefty to do it prior to this.
> 
> @Daniel, thoughts on s/bridge.dev/bridge.drm/ and
> s/bridge.device/bridge.dev/ after this series?

I'm firmly in the "no opionon" on this.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch