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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: Use CamelCase properly


From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Subject: Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: Use CamelCase properly
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 11:34:25 +0100
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On 3/7/19 6:38 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 07/03/2019 16:21, David Gibson wrote:
>> The qemu coding standard is to use CamelCase for type and structure names,
>> and the pseries code follows that... sort of.  There are quite a lot of
>> places where we bend the rules in order to preserve the capitalization of
>> internal acronyms like "PHB", "TCE", "DIMM" and most commonly "sPAPR".
>>
>> That was a bad idea - it frequently leads to names ending up with hard to
>> read clusters of capital letters, and means they don't catch the eye as
>> type identifiers, which is kind of the point of the CamelCase convention in
>> the first place.
>>
>> In short, keeping type identifiers look like CamelCase is more important
>> than preserving standard capitalization of internal "words".  So, this
>> patch renames a heap of spapr internal type names to a more standard
>> CamelCase.
>>
>> In addition to case changes, we also make some other identifier renames:
>>   VIOsPAPR* -> SpaprVio*
>>     The reverse word ordering was only ever used to mitigate the capital
>>     cluster, so revert to the natural ordering.
>>   VIOsPAPRVTYDevice -> SpaprVioVty
>>   VIOsPAPRVLANDevice -> SpaprVioVlan
>>     Brevity, since the "Device" didn't add useful information
>>   sPAPRDRConnector -> SpaprDrc
>>   sPAPRDRConnectorClass -> SpaprDrcClass
>>     Brevity, and makes it clearer this is the same thing as a "DRC"
>>     mentioned in many other places in the code
>>
>> This is 100% a mechanical search-and-replace patch. It will, however,
>> conflict with essentially any and all outstanding patches touching the
>> spapr code.
> 
> 
> so it would be nice to have the script to fix those outstanding patches
> before reposting.

What I usually do:

$ sed -i 's/sPAPRDRConnectorClass/SpaprDrcClass/' \
  $(git grep -l sPAPRDRConnectorClass)

> 
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> Changes since RFC:
>>  * Added a number of extra renames for brevity and/or clarity
>>  * Fixed couple of places the new capitalization still wasn't right
>>



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