linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH vRFC 3/8] treewide: rename firmware_request

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:52:49 +0530
From: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@...cinc.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, <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 2/26/2024 6:39 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 04:22:09PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2/24/2024 11:06 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> 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 for the history.,
>> In that case, should we fix this verb_noun cases ?
>>
>> request_firmware()
>> request_firmware_into_buf()
>> request_firmware_nowarn()
>> request_firmware_direct()
>> request_firmware_cache()
>> request_partial_firmware_into_buf()
>> release_firmware()
> 
> That would provide consistency, right?

Yes, Below names look better..

firmware_request()
firmware_request_into_buf()
firmware_request_nowarn()
firmware_request_direct()
firmware_request_cache()
firmware_request_partial_into_buf()
firmware_release()

@Luis/Others, Can we do this change ?

-Mukesh
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h