On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 04:04:46PM +0530, Himadri Pandya wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm getting started with device drivers. And as a starter, I'm working on
> some clean-up patches.  I'm particularly targeting to rename a structure
> array "ChannelPlan"(in file dot11d.c) to fix a checkpatch.pl warning "Avoid
> CamelCase". According to the coding style, it should be converted to
> "channel_plan". But the code contains a function argument with the same
> name "channel_plan". Should I then rename the array to something like
> "channel_name_"? I'm sorry for asking such a silly question. But I want to
> know if renaming it in such a ways fits in the convention before I make the
> change.

A structure name is different from a function name, so odds are you can
just do this with no problems.  Try it and find out!

greg k-h