Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: hal: Remove camelcase

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Apr 07 2021 - 13:27:44 EST


On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 06:30:00PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> Remove camelcase. Issue detected by checkpatch.pl. For now, change only
> names of static functions in order to not break the driver's code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c | 44 ++++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c
> index b1f02bb9f0a9..5e28818e58e0 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
> /* */
> /* Creadted by Roger, 2011.01.31. */
> /* */
> -static void HalSdioGetCmdAddr8723BSdio(
> +static void hal_sdio_get_cmd_addr_8723b_sdio(
> struct adapter *adapter,
> u8 device_id,
> u32 addr,
> @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static u8 get_deviceid(u32 addr)
>
> /*
> * Ref:
> - *HalSdioGetCmdAddr8723BSdio()
> + *hal_sdio_get_cmd_addr_8723b_sdio()

What does this comment even mean?

I think you can delete it.

But really, that's a crazy function name length, can you make it any
shorter?

thanks,

greg k-h