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Date:   Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:38:01 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 19/20] firmware: add request_firmware_cache() to help
 with cache on reboot
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 05:34:09PM +0000, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 09:30:55AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 06:15:00AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(request_firmware_cache);
> > 
> > I know you are just following the existing naming scheme, but please
> > let's not continue the problem here.  Can you prefix all of the firmware
> > exported symbols with "firmware_", and then the verb.  So this would be
> > "firmware_request_cache",
> 
> Sure.
> 
> >  and the older function would be
> > "firmware_request_direct".
> 
> Sure, so you want to also rename the old exported symbols, and add a macro
> or static inline to enable use of the older names?

Renaming is best, let's not keep them around for no good reason :)

thanks,

greg k-h