Re: [PATCH 01/30] drm: Introduce drm_bridge_init()

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Wed Nov 27 2019 - 06:31:52 EST


On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:05:56AM +0000, Mihail Atanassov wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 November 2019 19:24:45 GMT Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Hi Mihail.
>
> Hi Sam,
>
> >
> > > Ack, but with one caveat: bridge->dev is the struct drm_device that is
> > > the bridge client, we need to add a bridge->device (patch 29 in this
> > > series) which is the struct device that will manage the bridge lifetime.
> > Other places uses the variable name "drm" for a drm_device.
> > This is less confusion than the "dev" name.
> >
> > It seems a recent trend to use the variable name "drm" so you can find a
> > lot of places using "dev".
> >
> > bike-shedding - but also about readability.
> >
> > Sam
> >
>
> I'm okay with the idea, I can do a follow-up patch or series for the
> rename; I expect it would be a bit hefty to do it prior to this.
>
> @Daniel, thoughts on s/bridge.dev/bridge.drm/ and
> s/bridge.device/bridge.dev/ after this series?

I'm firmly in the "no opionon" on this.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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