[PATCH v2 1/7] staging: qlge: replace ql_* with qlge_* to avoid namespace clashes with other qlogic drivers

Coiby Xu coiby.xu at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 04:26:28 UTC 2020


On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:01:36AM +0900, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
>On 2020-10-14 18:43 +0800, Coiby Xu wrote:
>> To avoid namespace clashes with other qlogic drivers and also for the
>> sake of naming consistency, use the "qlge_" prefix as suggested in
>> drivers/staging/qlge/TODO.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier at gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/qlge/TODO           |    4 -
>>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h         |  190 ++--
>>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c     | 1073 ++++++++++++-----------
>>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c |  231 ++---
>>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c    | 1257 +++++++++++++--------------
>>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_mpi.c     |  352 ++++----
>>  6 files changed, 1551 insertions(+), 1556 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO b/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO
>> index f93f7428f5d5..5ac55664c3e2 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO
>> @@ -28,10 +28,6 @@
>>  * the driver has a habit of using runtime checks where compile time checks are
>>    possible (ex. ql_free_rx_buffers(), ql_alloc_rx_buffers())
>>  * reorder struct members to avoid holes if it doesn't impact performance
>> -* in terms of namespace, the driver uses either qlge_, ql_ (used by
>> -  other qlogic drivers, with clashes, ex: ql_sem_spinlock) or nothing (with
>> -  clashes, ex: struct ob_mac_iocb_req). Rename everything to use the "qlge_"
>> -  prefix.
>
>You only renamed ql -> qlge. The prefix needs to be added where there is
>currently none like the second example of that text.
>
Thank you for reminding me of the second example!

>Besides, the next patch reintroduces the name struct ql_adapter.

Oh, there is still a left-over ql_adapter in qlge.h (I renamed ql->qlge
after initializing the devlink framework earlier but did a git rebase
to make the order of the changes more reasonable). Thank you for the
reminding!

--
Best regards,
Coiby


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