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

[Boris Brezillon]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:09:09 +0100
Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 ? :-)
> 

Physical device, but it's also exposed as a kernel dev object by the
MTD layer.