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From: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	Robert Wisniewski <bob@watson.ibm.com>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@AM.SONY.COM>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 2
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:10:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41FEACD3.10502@opersys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050129081527.GD7738@kroah.com>


Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 01:38:22PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> 
>>+extern void * alloc_rchan_buf(unsigned long size,
>>+			      struct page ***page_array,
>>+			      int *page_count);
>>+extern void free_rchan_buf(void *buf,
>>+			   struct page **page_array,
>>+			   int page_count);
> 
> 
> As these will be "polluting" the global namespace of the kernel, could
> you add "relayfs_" to the front of them?

BTW, these functions are in buffers.h which is an internal header to
fs/relayfs/*.c files. buffers.h is not included in anything outside.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no namespace pollution in that
case, right? All that does contribute to namespace pollution is in
include/linux/relayfs_fs.h.

Thanks,

Karim
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-31 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-28 19:38 [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 2 Tom Zanussi
2005-01-28 20:48 ` Tim Bird
2005-01-28 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-29  8:08 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-30  4:58   ` Tom Zanussi
2005-01-31 12:57     ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-31 16:26       ` Tom Zanussi
2005-01-31 19:41         ` Karim Yaghmour
2005-01-31 21:03           ` Tom Zanussi
2005-01-31 21:12             ` Karim Yaghmour
2005-01-31 19:38       ` Karim Yaghmour
2005-01-29  8:15 ` Greg KH
2005-01-30  5:02   ` Tom Zanussi
2005-01-31 22:10   ` Karim Yaghmour [this message]
2005-01-31 22:33     ` Greg KH
2005-01-31 22:35       ` Karim Yaghmour
2005-01-31 23:12 ` Roman Zippel
2005-02-01 15:44   ` Tom Zanussi

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