Re: [PATCH v3 19/20] firmware: add request_firmware_cache() to help with cache on reboot

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 06:24:09PM +0000, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 06:38:01PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 05:34:09PM +0000, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 09:30:55AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 06:15:00AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(request_firmware_cache);
> > > > 
> > > > I know you are just following the existing naming scheme, but please
> > > > let's not continue the problem here.  Can you prefix all of the firmware
> > > > exported symbols with "firmware_", and then the verb.  So this would be
> > > > "firmware_request_cache",
> > > 
> > > Sure.
> > > 
> > > >  and the older function would be
> > > > "firmware_request_direct".
> > > 
> > > Sure, so you want to also rename the old exported symbols, and add a macro
> > > or static inline to enable use of the older names?
> > 
> > Renaming is best, let's not keep them around for no good reason :)
> 
> Sure thing, I'll rename the old firmware calls.

Ah, in looking at this closer, that might take a bit of time, as there
are a _lot_ of callers of request_firmware().  So maybe a macro/wrapper
is good for that one so we can propagate the changes through the
different subsystems and do this over a few kernel releases.

But for anything new, let's get it right the first time :)

thanks,

greg k-h