Re: [PATCH 00/36] pinctrl: don't use GPIOLIB global numberspace in helpers

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 10:12 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What is your view on Andy's and Kent's issues with the _new() name
> suffix?

We have done similar operations in the past, and it is similar to what
Uwe is doing for the moment with the .remove() callbacks.

Usually the strategy is employed when the work needs to be spread
out over a few merge windows so it is a bit of a marker that "this is
in transition".

There is the  horror story of this staying around forever and becoming
idiomatic: struct napi_struct (include/linux/netdevice.h) where
"napi" means "new API" - yeah that could have been handled better...

If there is more moaning about it I will simply squash all the patches
into one and call it a day - the end result will be the same and no
sign of any *_new suffix anywhere. It was still worth it for reviewing
the driver changes on a per-driver basis so then it becomes one of
those Schopenhauer ladders that you can toss away after climbing
it.

Yours,
Linus Walleij