On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:47:46PM -0600, George McCollister wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 12:32 PM Vladimir Oltean <olte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > May boil down to preference too, but I don't believe "dev" is a happy > > > > name to give to a driver private data structure. > > > > > > There are other drivers in the subsystem that do this. If there was a > > > consistent pattern followed in the subsystem I would have followed it. > > > Trust me I was a bit frustrated with home much time I spent going > > > through multiple drivers trying to determine the best practices for > > > organization, naming, etc. > > > If it's a big let me know and I'll change it. > > > > Funny that you are complaining about consistency in other drivers, > > because if I count correctly, out of a total of 22 occurrences of > > struct xrs700x variables in yours, 13 are named priv and 9 are named > > dev. So you are not even consistent with yourself. But it's not a major > > issue either way. > > Touché. This ended up happening because I followed the pattern used by > different drivers in different places. Specifically ksz was using > regmap to work on multiple buses but wasn't a very clean example for > much else. > I'll just change it to priv everywhere.
Don't worry, I know you copied from the micrel ksz driver, I made sure to complain there as well: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/11/12/1344 It's a pretty bad driver to copy from, by the way.
