Hello Jani,
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 05:34:28PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> 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 *.
Well, unless it's not. Prominently there is
struct drm_device {
...
struct device *dev;
...
};
which yields quite a few code locations using dev->dev which is
IMHO unnecessary irritating:
$ git grep '\<dev->dev' v6.5-rc1 drivers/gpu/drm | wc -l
1633
Also the functions that deal with both a struct device and a struct
drm_device often use "dev" for the struct device and then "ddev" for
the drm_device (see for example amdgpu_device_get_pcie_replay_count()).
> If folks insist on following through with this anyway, I'm firmly in the
> camp the name should be "drm" and nothing else.
Up to now positive feedback is in the majority.
Best regards
Uwe
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