Re: [RFC 02/11] hwmon: (core) Rename last parameter of devm_hwmon_register_with_info()

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 5/4/23 00:57, James Seo wrote:
> Change the name of the groups parameter of
> devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info() to extra_groups to
> match the name given by the hwmon API reference and in
> hwmon_device_register_with_info().
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Seo <james@equiv.tech>
> ---
>   drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 6 +++---
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> index 573b83b6c08c..5f205686065e 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> @@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups);
>    * @name:	hwmon name attribute
>    * @drvdata:	driver data to attach to created device
>    * @chip:	pointer to hwmon chip information
> - * @groups:	pointer to list of driver specific attribute groups
> + * @extra_groups: pointer to list of driver specific attribute groups
>    *
>    * Returns the pointer to the new device. The new device is automatically
>    * unregistered with the parent device.
> @@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ struct device *
>   devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(struct device *dev, const char *name,
>   				     void *drvdata,
>   				     const struct hwmon_chip_info *chip,
> -				     const struct attribute_group **groups)
> +				     const struct attribute_group **extra_groups)

Please please please no such changes. I don't want to have to deal with
patch wars just because people believe variables should have other names.

Such changes add zero value unless one counts wasted review time as a "value".

Guenter

>   {
>   	struct device **ptr, *hwdev;
>   
> @@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(struct device *dev, const char *name,
>   		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>   
>   	hwdev = hwmon_device_register_with_info(dev, name, drvdata, chip,
> -						groups);
> +						extra_groups);
>   	if (IS_ERR(hwdev))
>   		goto error;
>