From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kay@vrfy.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, lizefan@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] sysfs: @name comes before @ns
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:32:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130926223259.GA29433@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130912034943.GB4723@mtj.dyndns.org>
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:49:43PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Eric.
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 08:39:27PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > @ns is more significant so it should come first.
> >
> > Where do we have the backwards convention of putting @name first?
>
> Because @ns is optional and you end up with stupid stuff like
>
> sysfs_xxx_ns(@param, @ns, @name)
> sysfs_xxx(@param, @name)
>
> You put optional params after the mandatory ones. It may be difficult
> to accept for you but @ns is a *clearly* optional thing for sysfs.
Sorry Eric, but I agree with Tejun here, the optional part is @ns, not
name, so it should go at the end.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-12 2:29 [PATCHSET] sysfs: disentangle kobject namespace handling from sysfs Tejun Heo
2013-09-12 2:29 ` [PATCH 1/7] sysfs: drop semicolon from to_sysfs_dirent() definition Tejun Heo
2013-09-12 2:29 ` [PATCH 2/7] sysfs: make attr namespace interface less convoluted Tejun Heo
2013-09-12 19:46 ` David Miller
2013-09-12 2:29 ` [PATCH 3/7] sysfs: remove ktype->namespace() invocations in directory code Tejun Heo
2013-09-12 2:29 ` [PATCH 4/7] sysfs: remove ktype->namespace() invocations in symlink code Tejun Heo
2013-09-12 2:29 ` [PATCH 5/7] sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handling Tejun Heo
2013-09-12 2:29 ` [PATCH 6/7] sysfs: clean up sysfs_get_dirent() Tejun Heo
2013-09-12 3:22 ` [PATCH v2 " Tejun Heo
2013-09-12 2:29 ` [PATCH 7/7] sysfs: @name comes before @ns Tejun Heo
2013-09-12 3:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-09-12 3:49 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-26 22:32 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-09-12 3:19 ` [PATCHSET] sysfs: disentangle kobject namespace handling from sysfs Greg KH
2013-09-12 3:23 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-12 3:33 ` Greg KH
2013-09-12 3:34 ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-12 3:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-09-12 4:17 ` Greg KH
2013-09-12 3:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-09-12 3:47 ` Tejun Heo
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