netdev - Re: [patch net-next v2] devlink: add format requirement for devlink param names

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Date:   Mon, 21 Oct 2019 09:58:30 +0200
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2] devlink: add format requirement for devlink
 param names

Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 07:09:51PM CEST, jiri@...nulli.us wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
>
>Currently, the name format is not required by the code, however it is
>required during patch review. All params added until now are in-lined
>with the following format:
>1) lowercase characters, digits and underscored are allowed
>2) underscore is neither at the beginning nor at the end and
>   there is no more than one in a row.
>
>Add checker to the code to require this format from drivers and warn if
>they don't follow.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
>---
>v1->v2:
>- removed empty line after comment
>- added check for empty string
>- converted i and len to size_t and put on a single line
>- s/valid_name/name_valid/ to be aligned with the rest

Will send v3 which would allow uppercase and will make it part of
patchset that would check more devlink strings.