linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 34/36] treewide: rename pinctrl_gpio_direction_input

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Message-ID: <ZR1fb/nwg58AZ0y9@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 Oct 2023 15:49:51 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 34/36] treewide: rename pinctrl_gpio_direction_input_new()

On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 09:08:41PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 5:16 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 5:51 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
> > >
> > > Now that pinctrl_gpio_direction_input() is no longer used, let's drop the
> > > '_new' suffix from its improved variant.
> >
> > This and other "treewide" patches in the series are redundant. Just
> > name the functions better to begin with.
> 
> I don't want to rename these functions. They have perfectly fine
> names. I want to change their signatures and the renaming part is
> there only to make the reviewing easier.

So, then you can make them macros and based on the type of the first argument
use either old or new API, which you then make public. The all noise with
"_new" is not needed, really.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko