Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 29/29] libqtest: Rename qtest_init() to qtest_start()

[Eric Blake]

On 09/05/2017 08:10 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 01.09.2017 20:03, Eric Blake wrote:
>> We already have another qtest_init() in the tree, for the
>> top-level qtest.c device; having two functions with different
>> signatures is confusing.  Rename the libqtest version to
>> qtest_start() to eliminate the duplication.
> 
> This is too much code churn for my taste, and I also do not like the
> idea of naming the function qtest_start() - since this was a function
> with different semantics before your patch 28/29, so this will cause
> confusion for all the people who are used to the old qtest_start()
> function or who want to backport patches that have done after this
> change to a code level before this change.
> 
> If you are really bugged by the qtest_init() name clash, I think it's
> way easier if you rename the qtest_init() in the qtest.c file instead.

Except the qtest_init() in qtest.c really is our normal pattern of
*_init for devices, so that one's named correctly.  Our testsuite is the
one that is using a name different from its normal usage in the rest of
the tree.

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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