On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:32 PM Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > May boil down to preference too, but I don't believe "dev" is a happy > > > name to give to a driver private data structure. > > > > There are other drivers in the subsystem that do this. If there was a > > consistent pattern followed in the subsystem I would have followed it. > > Trust me I was a bit frustrated with home much time I spent going > > through multiple drivers trying to determine the best practices for > > organization, naming, etc. > > If it's a big let me know and I'll change it. > > Funny that you are complaining about consistency in other drivers, > because if I count correctly, out of a total of 22 occurrences of > struct xrs700x variables in yours, 13 are named priv and 9 are named > dev. So you are not even consistent with yourself. But it's not a major > issue either way. Touché. This ended up happening because I followed the pattern used by different drivers in different places. Specifically ksz was using regmap to work on multiple buses but wasn't a very clean example for much else. I'll just change it to priv everywhere.