Re: [PATCH vRFC 3/8] treewide: rename firmware_request_platform()

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Fri Feb 23 2024 - 10:16:10 EST


On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 07:21:31AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 11:30:28PM +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> > Rename firmware_request_platform() to request_firmware_platform()
> > to be more concrete and align with the name of other request
> > firmware family functions.
>
> Sorry, but no, it should be "noun_verb" for public functions.

News to me, do we have this documented somewhere?

> Yes, we mess this up a lot, but keeping the namespace this way works out
> better for global symbols, so "firmware_*" is best please.

We should certainly stick to *one* pattern, for the better, and it
occurs to me we could further review this with a coccinelle python
script for public functions, checking the first two elements of a public
function for noun and verb.

Luis