Re: [PATCH] staging: qlge: change prefix to qlge_*

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 05:41:20PM +0900, Sidong Yang wrote:
> In terms of namespace, The driver uses either qlge_, ql_ or nothing.
> also there is macro using QL_. This can make crash with other qlogic
> drivers. Rename everything to use the qlge_ or QLGE_ prefix.

How can it crash anything?

I can see changing global functions to a common namespace like this, but
you are changing a _lot_ of things here:

> ---
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h         |  488 +++++------
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_dbg.c     |  638 +++++++-------
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c |  484 +++++------
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c    | 1200 +++++++++++++--------------
>  drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_mpi.c     |  386 ++++-----
>  5 files changed, 1598 insertions(+), 1598 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h
> index fc8c5ca8935d..a8da06c978ff 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge.h
> @@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ enum {
>  	MB_CMD_GET_PORT_CFG = 0x00000123,
>  	MB_CMD_GET_LINK_STS = 0x00000124,
>  	MB_CMD_SET_LED_CFG = 0x00000125, /* Set LED Configuration Register */
> -		QL_LED_BLINK = 0x03e803e8,
> +		QLGE_LED_BLINK = 0x03e803e8,
>  	MB_CMD_GET_LED_CFG = 0x00000126, /* Get LED Configuration Register */
>  	MB_CMD_SET_MGMNT_TFK_CTL = 0x00000160, /* Set Mgmnt Traffic Control */
>  	MB_SET_MPI_TFK_STOP = (1 << 0),
> @@ -986,14 +986,14 @@ enum {
>  	MB_CMD_STS_PARAM_ERR = 0x00004006,	/* Parameter Error. */
>  };
>  
> -struct mbox_params {
> +struct qlge_mbox_params {
>  	u32 mbox_in[MAILBOX_COUNT];
>  	u32 mbox_out[MAILBOX_COUNT];
>  	int in_count;
>  	int out_count;
>  };

Why change local structure names that are local to the specific driver?
That "namespace" can not escape out of the driver, so lots of these
changes are unneeded.

I will gladly take a patch that fixes up the global symbols, but that's
all that needs to be done here, right?

thanks,

greg k-h