Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 4 authors, 2017-05-30

[PATCH v4 8/8] arm,arm64,drivers: add a prefix to drivers arch_topology interfaces

From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg KH)
Date: 2017-05-25 13:18:16
Also in: linux-devicetree, linux-pm, lkml

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 03:43:16PM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
Now that some functions that deal with arch topology information live
under drivers, there is a clash of naming that might create confusion.

Tidy things up by creating a drivers namespace for interfaces used by
arch code; achieve this by prepending a 'atd_' (arch topology driver)
prefix to driver interfaces.
No one knows, nor will they ever remember, what "atd_" means :(

Naming is hard, I know, here's my suggestion:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/include/linux/arch_topology.h b/include/linux/arch_topology.h
index 4edae9fe8cdd..e25458d7ee9a 100644
--- a/include/linux/arch_topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/arch_topology.h
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_ARCH_TOPOLOGY_H_
 #define _LINUX_ARCH_TOPOLOGY_H_
 
-void normalize_cpu_capacity(void);
+void atd_normalize_cpu_capacity(void);
arch_cpu_normalize_capacity();
or
cpu_normalize_capacity();

Why do you care if this is "arch" or not, of course it's arch-specific
in a way, right?
 
 struct device_node;
-int parse_cpu_capacity(struct device_node *cpu_node, int cpu);
+int atd_parse_cpu_capacity(struct device_node *cpu_node, int cpu);
cpu_parse_capacity();
 struct sched_domain;
-unsigned long arch_scale_cpu_capacity(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu);
+unsigned long atd_scale_cpu_capacity(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu);
cpu_scale_capacity();
-void set_capacity_scale(unsigned int cpu, unsigned long capacity);
+void atd_set_capacity_scale(unsigned int cpu, unsigned long capacity);
wait, where did the cpu go?  This doesn't make much sense, these are all
"capacity" issues, right?  If so, then these should be:
	capacity_normalize_cpu()
	capacity_parse_cpu()
	capacity_scale_cpu()
	capacity_set_scale()

But this is all really topology stuff, right?  Why use "capacity" at
all:
	topology_normalize_cpu()
	topology_parse_cpu()
	topology_scale_cpu()
	topology_set_scale()
?

It's always best to put the "subsystem" name first, we have a bad
history of getting this wrong in the past by putting the verb first, not
the noun.

thanks,

greg k-h
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