Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Rename functions to match their entry points

From: Chris Wilson
Date: Wed Jul 10 2019 - 08:48:06 EST


Quoting Janusz Krzysztofik (2019-07-10 13:36:25)
> Need for this was identified while working on split of driver unbind
> path into _remove() and _release() parts. Consistency in function
> naming has been recognized as helpful when trying to work out which
> phase the code is in.
>
> What I'm still not sure about is desired depth of that modification -
> how deep should we go down with renaming to not override meaningfull
> function names. Please advise if you think still more deep renaming
> makes sense.

I did a double take over "driver_release" but by the end I was in
agreement.

The early_release though, that is worth a bit of artistic license to say
early_probe pairs with late_release.
-Chris