linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 02/11] riscv: add ISA extensions validation

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Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 16:47:02 +0100
From: Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To: Clément Léger <cleger@...osinc.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
	Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/11] riscv: add ISA extensions validation

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 03:26:23PM +0200, Clément Léger wrote:
> > This function is badly in need of some new variable names for the first
> > two parameters. It's hard to follow what each of them is meant to be
> > once you're inside this function and removed from their definitions.
> > The first parameter is the source bitmap that we've already filled from
> > the dt/acpi scan of that hart and the second is the per-hart data
> > structure that we're gonna assign it to and keep "forever", I think the
> > naming should reflect that.
> 
> Yeah, wasn't sure of the naming at all. Would you be ok with the following:
> 
> - source_isa: Input ISA bitmap parsed from ISA string (DT/ACPI)
> - resolved_isa: Output ISA bitmap resolved from the first one
> (configuration and extension dependencies matching).
> 
> Since I'm a non-native english speaker, I'm not sure at all if it
> correctly means what they do, feel free to tell me if you have some
> better options.

I think those are fine, thanks.

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