[PATCH] UBI: block: do not use term "attach"

[Ezequiel Garcia]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:13:16PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 10:59 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 02:57:38PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 12:02 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > > > + * This feature is compiled in the UBI core, and adds a 'block' parameter
> > > > + * to allow early creation of block devices on top of UBI volumes. Runtime
> > > > + * block creation/removal for UBI volumes is provided through two UBI ioctls:
> > > > + * UBI_IOCVOLATTBLK and UBI_IOCVOLDETBLK.
> > > >   */
> > > 
> > > I think the ioctl names should also be consistent.
> > > s/AT/CR/, s/DET/RM/, may be?
> > > 
> > 
> > Ah, yes. Good catch.
> > 
> > Let's write them down, so we can see how they result: UBI_IOCVOLCRBLK,
> > UBI_IOCVOLRMBLK. Aren't these too unreadable?
> 
> Dunno, the other ones are similarly unreadable.
> 

Yes, indeed.

> > How about something along UBI_IOCBLK_CREAT UBI_IOCBLK_RM ?
> 
> Well, would be a little inconsistent, but more readable, yes.

Indeed, it's less consistent.

> Usually
> ioctl names to not have underscores, though, no?
> 

A quick grep shows some ioctls follow that rule, some don't.
I'd say it's your call.
-- 
Ezequiel García, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android Engineering
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