netdev - Re: [iproute2-next v3] devlink: display elapsed time during flash update

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Date:   Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:21:26 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>
Subject: Re: [iproute2-next v3] devlink: display elapsed time during flash
 update

On 10/19/20 1:20 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:05:34 +0000 Keller, Jacob E wrote:
>>> The DEVLINK attributes are ridiculously long --
>>> DEVLINK_ATTR_FLASH_UPDATE_STATUS_TIMEOUT is 40 characters -- which
>>> forces really long code lines or oddly wrapped lines. Going forward
>>> please consider abbreviations on name components to reduce their lengths.  
>>
>> This is probably a larger discussion, since basically every devlink attribute name is long.
>>
>> Jiri, Jakub, any thoughts on this? I'd like to see whatever abbreviation scheme we use be consistent.
> 
> As David said - let's keep an eye on this going forward. We already 
> pushed back with Moshe's live reload work.
> 
> If you really want to make things better for this particular name
> you could probably drop the word _STATUS from it.
> 

and typical strategies - like dropping vowels.

DEVLINK_ATTR_ is the established prefix so every attribute starts at 13
characters. In this case dropping STATUS and shortening TIMEOUT so it
becomes DEVLINK_ATTR_FLASH_UPDATE_TMOUT does not overly harm the
readability yet drops the char count to 31. Still long but is an example
of what can be done.