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Date:   Sat, 19 Mar 2022 08:30:45 +1000
From:   Ben Skeggs <skeggsb@...il.com>
To:     Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
Cc:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        ML nouveau <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ML dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau/bios: Rename prom_init() and friends functions

On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 04:11, Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Whoops, sorry! I was unsure of the preference in name we should go with so I
> poked Ben on the side to ask them, but I can see they haven't yet responded.
> I'll poke thme again and see if I can get a response.
Yeah, please keep _prom as opposed to _rom.  It's a reference to the
NV_PROM device.

Ben.

>
> On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 10:55 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > Le 05/03/2022 à 10:51, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
> > >
> > >
> > > Le 05/03/2022 à 08:38, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Le 04/03/2022 à 21:24, Lyude Paul a écrit :
> > > > > This mostly looks good to me. Just one question (and one comment down
> > > > > below
> > > > > that needs addressing). Is this with ppc32? (I ask because ppc64le
> > > > > doesn't
> > > > > seem to hit this compilation error).
> > > >
> > > > That's with PPC64, see
> > > > http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/branch/chleroy/head/252ba609bea83234d2e35841c19ae84c67b43ec7/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > But that's not (yet) with the mainline tree. That's work I'm doing to
> > > > cleanup our asm/asm-protoypes.h header.
> > > >
> > > > Since commit 4efca4ed05cb ("kbuild: modversions for EXPORT_SYMBOL()
> > > > for asm") that file is dedicated to prototypes of functions defined in
> > > > assembly. Therefore I'm trying to dispatch C functions prototypes in
> > > > other headers. I wanted to move prom_init() prototype into asm/prom.h
> > > > and then I hit the problem.
> > > >
> > > > In the beginning I was thinking about just changing the name of the
> > > > function in powerpc, but as I see that M68K, MIPS and SPARC also have
> > > > a prom_init() function, I thought it would be better to change the
> > > > name in shadowrom.c to avoid any future conflict like the one I got
> > > > while reworking the headers.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > @@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ prom_init(struct nvkm_bios *bios, const char
> > > > > > *name)
> > > > > >   const struct nvbios_source
> > > > > >   nvbios_rom = {
> > > > > >          .name = "PROM",
> > > > > > -       .init = prom_init,
> > > > > > -       .fini = prom_fini,
> > > > > > -       .read = prom_read,
> > > > > > +       .init = nvbios_rom_init,
> > > > > > +       .fini = nvbios_rom_fini,
> > > > > > +       .read = nvbios_rom_read,
> > > > >
> > > > > Seeing as the source name is prom, I think using the naming convention
> > > > > nvbios_prom_* would be better then nvbios_rom_*.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yes I wasn't sure about the best naming as the file name is
> > > > shadowrom.c and not shadowprom.c.
> > > >
> > > > I will send v2 using nvbios_prom_* as a name.
> > >
> > > While preparing v2 I remembered that in fact, I called the functions
> > > nvbios_rom_* because the name of the nvbios_source struct is nvbios_rom,
> > > so for me it made sense to use the name of the struct as a prefix for
> > > the functions.
> > >
> > > So I'm OK to change it to nvbios_prom_* but it looks less logical to me.
> > >
> > > Please confirm you still prefer nvbios_prom as prefix to the function
> > > names.
> > >
> >
> > Are you still expecting a v2 for this patch ?
> >
> > As the name of the structure is nvbios_rom, do you really prefer the
> > functions to be called nvbios_prom_* as you mentionned in your comment ?
> >
> > In that case, do you also expect the structure name to be changed to
> > nvbios_prom ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Christophe
> >
>
> --
> Cheers,
>  Lyude Paul (she/her)
>  Software Engineer at Red Hat
>