On 10/21/19 8:26 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: > From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> > > Currently, the name format is not required by the code, however it is > required during patch review. All params added until now are in-lined > with the following format: > 1) lowercase characters, digits and underscored are allowed > 2) underscore is neither at the beginning nor at the end and > there is no more than one in a row. > > Add checker to the code to require this format from drivers and warn if > they don't follow. This applies to params, resources, reporters, > traps, trap groups, dpipe tables and dpipe fields. >
This seems random and without any real cause. There is no reason to exclude dash and uppercase for example in the names.
