Re: [PATCH 02/10] platform/x86: fujitsu-laptop: shorten names of acpi_handle fields

[Darren Hart]

On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 10:49:26PM +0930, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 03:33:26PM +0200, Micha?? K??pie?? wrote:
> > As both struct fujitsu_bl and struct fujitsu_laptop represent data
> > associated with ACPI devices, drop the "acpi_" prefix from the names of
> > the relevant fields of these structures to save some horizontal space.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Micha?? K??pie?? <kernel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c | 23 +++++++++++------------
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c
> > index 3f232967af04..3695e8075aa6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c
> > @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
> >  
> >  /* Device controlling the backlight and associated keys */
> >  struct fujitsu_bl {
> > -	acpi_handle acpi_handle;
> > +	acpi_handle handle;
> 
> I must admit I'm not entirely convinced about this change.  "handle" to me
> is very generic and it's not immediately clear from the source usage what it
> might be a handle of.  A later patch in the series introduces an additional
> handle which includes a suitable suffix, which leaves us with generic and
> specific handles within the code.  Although it consumes an additional 5
> characters, my feeling is that the additional clarification is worth it.

ACPI handles are commonly "handle" in other drivers - and it does make me cringe
to see the type reused as the variable name :-) That much at least, I appreciate
in this patch.

dvhart@fury:~/source/linux/linux-pdx86 [testing]
$ git grep "acpi_handle handle" | wc -l
520

dvhart@fury:~/source/linux/linux-pdx86 [testing]
$ git grep "acpi_handle acpi_handle" | wc -l
4

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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center