Return-path: Received: from smtprelay0006.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.6]:34952 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751394AbcDRP4p (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:56:45 -0400 Message-ID: <1460995000.1917.5.camel@perches.com> (sfid-20160418_175650_856004_06E0B8B8) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] rtl8xxxu prepare for splitting into multiple files From: Joe Perches To: Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: kvalo@codeaurora.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 08:56:40 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1460994576-24091-1-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> References: <1460994576-24091-1-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 11:49 -0400, Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com wrote: > From: Jes Sorensen > > Hi, > > This is the last set of patches I have in my queue for the rtl8xxxu > driver, as of today :) > > Since the driver has grown to support quite a number of different > chips, I want to split it into multiple files. This will make it > easier to maintain and also eaiser to add support for more chips > without having to constantly touch the core files. > > This set renames a bunch of functions to indicate that they are > generic rather than chip specific. I will look at doing the actual > moving around in a set right after the current merge window closes. It's a bit of a pity that the identifiers are all quite long. ?Using these long identifiers makes 80 column content a bit right shifted and single line statements unlikely.