Re: [PULL REQUEST] i2c for 4.13

[Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>]

On 2017-07-13 09:56, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:16:32AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> wrote:
>>>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core-acpi.c                        |  665 ++++++++
>>>  drivers/i2c/{i2c-core.c => i2c-core-base.c}        | 1684 +-------------------
>>>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core-of.c                          |  276 ++++
>>>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core-slave.c                       |  115 ++
>>>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c                       |  594 +++++++
>>>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core.h                             |   24 +
>>>  drivers/i2c/i2c-stub.c                             |   14 +-
>>
>> Side note on this.. (and doesn't affect the pull - I pulled it and
>> it's going through my test build right now).
>>
>> Please don't do the silly "start every filename with the same prefix".
>> It annoys people (ie me) that use tab-completion, and it just looks
>> stupid.
>>
>> And this core re-org does it twice over - first with "i2c-" and then
>> with "core-".
>>
>> Of *course* it's "i2c-something.c" - it's in the i2c directory. So
>> that part is entirely pointless.
>>
>> And the "core-something.c" part seems to be entirely to keep the files
>> together - but if the issue really is "sort files together", then
>> that's why we have subdirectories.
>>
>> So I personally tend to much prefer
>>
>>    drivers/i2c/core/acpi.c
>>    drivers/i2c/core/base.c
>>    drivers/i2c/core/of.c
>>    drivers/i2c/core/slave.c
>>    drivers/i2c/core/smbus.c
>>    drivers/i2c/core/core.h
>>
>> as the model. Then things *really* sort together, auto-complete works
>> better, and tools like "git diff --dirstat" etc that group changes by
>> directories also automatically just do the right thing.
>>
>> And notice how the filenames are smaller and prettier too? It's just a
>> win/win situation.
>>
>> But I'm not going to enforce my style guide on you, since I very
>> seldom actually end up touching those files. If this was some area
>> where I often actually ended up looking at things, I'd almost require
>> a sane directory structure, though.
>>
>> Because "name things with the same prefix" is not a sane directory structure.
> 
> Another reason I remember for the prefix thing is that this way the
> kernel modules are not named of.ko, core.ko and base.ko. (But this can
> be fixed in the Makefile of course with some more prose.)

And if you, like me, sometimes take a peek at the core of several
subsystems using emacs, the buffers are either named "core.c<subsys>"
or "subsys-core.c". The latter naming is more friendly to tab-completion
after ctrl-x b.

It's not totally black-and-white...

Cheers,
Peter