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
