Re: RFC: Mega rename of device tree routines from of_*() to dt_*()
From: Timur Tabi <hidden>
Date: 2010-11-24 15:45:29
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Michael Ellerman [off-list ref] wrote:
Personally I'm a bit ambivalent about it, the OF name is a bit wrong so it would be nice to get rid of, but it's a lot of churn. So I'm hoping people with either say "YES this is a great idea", or "NO this is stupid".
Well, my vote is "no". I wouldn't call it stupid, but I do think it's a bad idea. In general, I don't like renaming functions, because it causes complications with merges and porting code across kernel versions. It also forces me to re-remember things. And especially in this case, the churn is too great. You're affecting files across multiple subsystems and architectures. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale