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Message-ID: <2024022452-unwilling-pancake-3b2a@gregkh>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 06:36:18 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@...cinc.com>, russ.weight@...ux.dev,
rafael@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
cocci@...teme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH vRFC 3/8] treewide: rename firmware_request_platform()
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:42:35AM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 04:33:40PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 07:15:45AM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 07:21:31AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 11:30:28PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> > > > > Rename firmware_request_platform() to request_firmware_platform()
> > > > > to be more concrete and align with the name of other request
> > > > > firmware family functions.
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, but no, it should be "noun_verb" for public functions.
> > >
> > > News to me, do we have this documented somewhere?
> >
> > Not really, but searching makes it nicer.
> >
> > And yes, I violated this in the past in places, and have regretted it...
>
> Care to share a few examples of regret?
get_device()
put_device()
kill_device()
vs. a saner:
kobject_get()
kobject_put()
kobject_del()
Learn from the mistakes of my youth please :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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