[PATCH 4/6] Staging: hv: Unify the hyperv driver abstractions

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh at suse.de]
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:10 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: Greg KH; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; devel at linuxdriverproject.org;
> virtualization at lists.osdl.org; Haiyang Zhang; Hank Janssen
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Staging: hv: Unify the hyperv driver abstractions
> 
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:50:00AM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > > "struct driver_context"?  Oh please no.
> > > >
> > > > Greg; this is the patch that consolidates the state in  struct hv_driver into
> > > > struct driver_context. In the spirit of doing one thing in a patch;
> > > > other relevant changes are made in:
> > > > Patch[5/6]: Changes the name driver_context to hyperv_driver
> > > > Patch[6/6]: Cleanup all variable names that refer to struct hyperv_driver.
> > >
> > > Yes, but on its own, this patch is wrong, that is not a valid name, even
> > > if it is a "temporary" name.
> >
> > Greg, the temporary name happens to be the name currently in use in the
> > code - this is not the name I introduced.
> 
> There is not a "struct driver_context" in the code that I see today, or
> am I missing something?  That's my objection here, please don't use that
> name, it's not valid for a subsystem to use, even for a tiny bit.

Look at the file vmbus.h  you will see struct driver_context. This has been there for as long 
as I have seen this code. 

> 
> > Think of this as the surviving data structure after  the hv_driver
> > state is consolidated into (the existing) driver_context data
> > structure.  I did this in the spirit of doing one thing at a time. If
> > I am going to be picking a more appropriate name for the consolidated
> > data structure; I might as well pick the final name that we want this
> > unified driver abstraction to be called.
> 
> Your final name is fine, it's the intermediate one I'm objecting to.

Ok.

> 
> How about 'struct hv_driver_context' instead?
> 
> > > > > I realize that you are hopefully going to later rename this to something
> > > > > else, but remember, a few patches back you thought that the "ctx" name
> > > > > wasn't nice.  And here you go resuscitating it from the graveyard of
> > > > > pointy bits.
> > > >
> > > > As I noted in a different email, may be the granularity I chose in breaking up
> > > > these patches is causing all this confusion.
> > >
> > > Yes, as I think you need to go much finer as you were doing more than
> > > one thing in these patches, and not describing them properly at all.
> > >
> > > Please try to redo them in a simpler manner, probably breaking it into
> > > more steps, so we can properly review them.
> >
> > Based on your comments on intermediate names, would you recommend that
> > as part  of consolidating the driver abstractions, I also rename this combined
> > state.
> 
> Probably, if I understand what you are referring to.  Please post code
> so that I really know what you are doing :)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Regards,

K. Y