On Wed, 12 Jul 2023, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > while I debugged an issue in the imx-lcdc driver I was constantly > irritated about struct drm_device pointer variables being named "dev" > because with that name I usually expect a struct device pointer. > > I think there is a big benefit when these are all renamed to "drm_dev". > I have no strong preference here though, so "drmdev" or "drm" are fine > for me, too. Let the bikesheding begin! > > Some statistics: > > $ git grep -ohE 'struct drm_device *\* *[^ (),;]*' v6.5-rc1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n > 1 struct drm_device *adev_to_drm > 1 struct drm_device *drm_ > 1 struct drm_device *drm_dev > 1 struct drm_device *drm_dev > 1 struct drm_device *pdev > 1 struct drm_device *rdev > 1 struct drm_device *vdev > 2 struct drm_device *dcss_drv_dev_to_drm > 2 struct drm_device **ddev > 2 struct drm_device *drm_dev_alloc > 2 struct drm_device *mock > 2 struct drm_device *p_ddev > 5 struct drm_device *device > 9 struct drm_device * dev > 25 struct drm_device *d > 95 struct drm_device * > 216 struct drm_device *ddev > 234 struct drm_device *drm_dev > 611 struct drm_device *drm > 4190 struct drm_device *dev > > This series starts with renaming struct drm_crtc::dev to drm_dev. If > it's not only me and others like the result of this effort it should be > followed up by adapting the other structs and the individual usages in > the different drivers. I think this is an unnecessary change. In drm, a dev is usually a drm device, i.e. struct drm_device *. As shown by the numbers above. If folks insist on following through with this anyway, I'm firmly in the camp the name should be "drm" and nothing else. BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
