Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] mtd: nand: raw: prefix conflicting names with nandc instead of nand

From: Marek Vasut
Date: Wed Jan 11 2017 - 07:09:19 EST


On 01/11/2017 08:46 AM, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:08:23 +0100
> Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 11/21/2016 01:45 PM, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>>> Some raw NAND function names conflict with names defined in nand.h.
>>> Prefix all those functions with nandc (for nand chip) instead of nand so
>>> we can include nand.h from rawnand.h
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Nit, nand and nandc is quite confusing, why not call it nand_chip in full?
>>
>
> Indeed, the name is confusing as hell, I just tried to keep it
> short but that's probably not a good idea.
> Maybe I should just prefix/suffix the new functions with nanddev instead
> of changing the existing ones. What do you think?

That'd be less intrusive, but tbh, if the name is descriptive enough, I
don't care either way. What does 'nanddev' imply though ? NAND device as
in physical device or chip or just a kernel device object ? :-)

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut