netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 13/14] devlink: add by-instance dump infra

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Message-ID: <Y7k6JLAiqMQFKtWt@nanopsycho>
Date:   Sat, 7 Jan 2023 10:23:48 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
        pabeni@...hat.com, jacob.e.keller@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 13/14] devlink: add by-instance dump infra

Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 10:12:14PM CET, kuba@...nel.org wrote:
>On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 09:56:36 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>> Oh, just the "it" at the end? Sorry, I don't see the point.  
>> 
>> The point is simple. Ops is a struct of callback by name X. If someone
>> implements this ops struct, it is nice to assign the callbacks functions
>> of name y_X so it is obvious from the first sight, what the function
>> is related to.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what's wrong about having this sort of consistency. I
>> believe that you as a maintainer should rather enforce it than to be
>> against it. Am I missing something?
>
>IMO you have a tendency to form names by concatenating adjacent
>information rather than reflecting on what matters to the reader.
>I believe the low readability of the devlink code is sufficient 
>evidence to disagree with that direction.

Hmm.
1) What is wrong of having:
   .dumpit = devlink_instance_iter_dumpit
   instead of
   .dumpit = devlink_instance_iter_dump
   ?
   How exactly that decreases readability?

2) Why exactly you find devlink code hard to read?