Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: hal: Remove camelcase

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On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 7:27:38 PM CEST Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 06:30:00PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> > Remove camelcase. Issue detected by checkpatch.pl. For now, change only
> > names of static functions in order to not break the driver's code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c | 44 ++++++++++++------------
> >  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c
> > index b1f02bb9f0a9..5e28818e58e0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c
> > @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
> >  /*  */
> >  /*  Creadted by Roger, 2011.01.31. */
> >  /*  */
> > -static void HalSdioGetCmdAddr8723BSdio(
> > +static void hal_sdio_get_cmd_addr_8723b_sdio(
> >  	struct adapter *adapter,
> >  	u8 device_id,
> >  	u32 addr,
> > @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static u8 get_deviceid(u32 addr)
> >  
> >  /*
> >   * Ref:
> > - *HalSdioGetCmdAddr8723BSdio()
> > + *hal_sdio_get_cmd_addr_8723b_sdio()
> 
> What does this comment even mean?

Who can tell? Maybe we should ask the author :(

> 
> I think you can delete it.
> 

Mission accomplished. I'm about to send a new patch.

> But really, that's a crazy function name length, can you make it any
> shorter?

Device drivers developers have their own "style": functions names must have 25 characters or more! 

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 








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