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From: "Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>
To: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
Cc: devel@edk2.groups.io
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EmbeddedPkg: rename gEfiMmcHostProtocolGuid to gEdkiiMmcHostProtocolGuid
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 23:27:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cc63e8e-ea01-af04-ba46-ccfb3492d7e8@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200429200648.GJ21486@vanye>

On 4/29/20 10:06 PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 20:27:04 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> In EDK2, identifiers carrying the EFI prefix are reserved for ones
>> that are defined in the UEFI or PI specifications. For protocols that
>> are part of the internal EDK2 implementation, we use EDKII instead.
>>
>> Since the MMC host protocol defined in EmbeddedPkg is not the one that
>> the UEFI spec defines, and given the confusion around this, let's rename
>> it to gEdkiiMmcHostProtocolGuid.
> 
> 1) Yes, please, let's change this.
> 2) But not s/Efi/Edkii/ please.
> 
> We want to get rid of this thing - and the "replacement" in
> MdeModulePkg has things called gEdkiiPeiSdMmcHostControllerPpiGuid and
> gEdkiiSdMmcOverrideProtocolGuid, so I think this would still be
> confusing.
> 
> Could we call it plain gEmbeddedPkgMmcHostProtocolGuid or
> gEmbeddedMmcHostProtocolGuid instead?
> 

The latter seems the most suitable to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-29 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-29 18:27 [PATCH] EmbeddedPkg: rename gEfiMmcHostProtocolGuid to gEdkiiMmcHostProtocolGuid Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-29 20:06 ` Leif Lindholm
2020-04-29 21:27   ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2020-04-29 21:34     ` Leif Lindholm
2020-04-30  8:12       ` Ard Biesheuvel

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