[PATCH] Staging: vt6655: Replace a camel case variable name

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:16:45PM +0530, Aakash Hemadri wrote:
> On 21/02/10 06:50PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 06:42:07PM +0800, Yujia Qiao wrote:
> > > Replace camel case variable names with snake case in baseband.c.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yujia Qiao <rapiz at foxmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/vt6655/baseband.c | 4 ++--
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > This doesn't apply cleanly to my staging-next branch, can you please
> > rebase it and resend?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
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> When I first encountered the CamelCase check I believed that
> making such changes would only cause trouble for others.

Nope.

> Are such changes to API welcome in the kernel?

There is no "stable api" within the kernel, so fixing up incorrect names
is acceptable and required.

> I presume it is as long it doesn't break building the kernel

Of course, no patch can break the kernel build.

> If I do decide to fix such checks what must I look out for?

That everything continues to work as before?

thanks,

greg k-h