Re: [PATCH 2/4] drm/i915: Consistent struct device naming

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On ma, 2016-08-01 at 19:57 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 06:38:53PM +0300, David Weinehall wrote:
> > 
> > We currently have a mix of struct device *device, struct device *kdev,
> > and struct device *dev (the latter forcing us to refer to
> > struct drm_device as something else than the normal dev).
> > 
> > To simplify things, always use kdev when referring to struct device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Weinehall <david.weinehall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> kdev may be confused with kdev_t, but seems reasonable due to kobj.
> 
> This patch is an improvement, so
> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> but I was wondering if
> 
> struct device *dev;
> struct drm_device *drm;
> struct i915_device *i915;
> 

I'd vote for this scheme.

Regards, Joonas

> (struct i915_device is move apt now than drm_i915_private due to the
> subclassing)
> 
> made more sense as a longterm goal?
> -Chris
> 
-- 
Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation
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