Re: [PATCH 34/36] treewide: rename pinctrl_gpio_direction_input_new()

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 03:49:52PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 09:08:41PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 5:16 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 5:51 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Now that pinctrl_gpio_direction_input() is no longer used, let's drop the
> > > > '_new' suffix from its improved variant.
> > >
> > > This and other "treewide" patches in the series are redundant. Just
> > > name the functions better to begin with.
> > 
> > I don't want to rename these functions. They have perfectly fine
> > names. I want to change their signatures and the renaming part is
> > there only to make the reviewing easier.
> 
> So, then you can make them macros and based on the type of the first argument
> use either old or new API, which you then make public. The all noise with
> "_new" is not needed, really.

To elaborate:

First patch splits existing functions to the macros that use _Generic(), and
old ones become renamed only on the implementation side (to _old or whatever).
Then you add a new ones and apply them to these macros as a second (default?)
choice. Then you convert users one-by-one or whatever preference is, and at
the end you kill macros with old functions and rename "_new" again in a single
place (pinctrl core).


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko