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SubjectRe: [RFC net-next 1/3] net: marvell: prestera: Add Switchdev driver for Prestera family ASIC device 98DX325x (AC3x)
Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 12:50:58AM CET, vadym.kochan@plvision.eu wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:43:57PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> > > Please be consistent. Make your prefixes, name, filenames the same.
>> > > For example:
>> > > prestera_driver_kind[] = "prestera";
>> > >
>> > > Applied to the whole code.
>> > >
>> > So you suggested to use prestera_ as a prefix, I dont see a problem
>> > with that, but why not mvsw_pr_ ? So it has the vendor, device name parts
>> > together as a key. Also it is necessary to apply prefix for the static
>> > names ?
>>
>> Although static names don't cause linker issues, you do still see them
>> in opps stack traces, etc. It just helps track down where the symbols
>> come from, if they all have a prefix.
>>
>> Andrew
>
>Sure, thanks, makes sense. But is it necessary that prefix should match
>filenames too ? Would it be OK to use just 'mvpr_' instead of 'prestera_'

I would vote for "prestera_". It is clean, consistent, obvious.


>for funcs & types in this particular case ?
>
>Regards,
>Vadym Kochan

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