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Date:   Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:22:30 +0900
From:   Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
To:     Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@gmail.com>
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        Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/6] staging: qlge: coredump via devlink health
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On 2020-10-10 18:02 +0800, Coiby Xu wrote:
[...]
> > > +	do {                                                           \
> > > +		err = fill_seg_(fmsg, &dump->seg_hdr, dump->seg_regs); \
> > > +		if (err) {					       \
> > > +			kvfree(dump);                                  \
> > > +			return err;				       \
> > > +		}                                                      \
> > > +	} while (0)
> > > +
> > > +static int qlge_reporter_coredump(struct devlink_health_reporter *reporter,
> > > +				  struct devlink_fmsg *fmsg, void *priv_ctx,
> > > +				  struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
> > > +{
> > > +	int err = 0;
> > > +
> > > +	struct qlge_devlink *dev = devlink_health_reporter_priv(reporter);
> > 
> > Please name this variable ql_devlink, like in qlge_probe().
> 
> I happened to find the following text in drivers/staging/qlge/TODO
> > * in terms of namespace, the driver uses either qlge_, ql_ (used by
> >  other qlogic drivers, with clashes, ex: ql_sem_spinlock) or nothing (with
> >  clashes, ex: struct ob_mac_iocb_req). Rename everything to use the "qlge_"
> >  prefix.

This comment applies to global identifiers, not local variables.

> 
> So I will adopt qlge_ instead. Besides I prefer qlge_dl to ql_devlink.

Up to you but personally, I think ql_devlink is better. In any case,
"dev" is too general and often used for struct net_device pointers
instead.