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From: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] ethdev: unify prefix for static function and variables
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:25:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8933daaf-b285-3f91-d087-c92d576626a4@oktetlabs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201013165658.638760-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

On 10/13/20 7:56 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> Prefix static function and variables with 'eth_dev'.
> 
> For some 'rte_' prefix dropped, and for others 'eth_dev' added.
> This is useful to differentiate public and static function/variables.
> 
> The cleanup is good to for having consistent naming to help new
> additions naming.
> 
> No functional change, only naming.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> ---
> I think this renaming is good idea but not sure if it worth the noise
> it creates in the git history, since the change is mostly cosmetic.

I like the idea and say yes. Noise on git history is not
the main problem here. Fixes backporting will be a problem.
Anyway we should do it one day and I see no single reason
why not now.

Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-14  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-13 16:56 Ferruh Yigit
2020-10-14  6:25 ` Andrew Rybchenko [this message]
2020-10-14  7:59   ` Gaëtan Rivet
2020-10-16 22:47     ` Ferruh Yigit

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