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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, 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: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:39:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9ji4sk0.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378952949-7900-8-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> (Tejun Heo's message of "Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:29:09 -0400")

Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> writes:

> Some internal sysfs functions which take explicit namespace argument
> are weird in that they place the optional @ns in front of @name which
> is contrary to the established convention.  This is confusing and
> error-prone especially as @ns and @name may be interchanged without
> causing compilation warning.
>
> Swap the positions of @name and @ns in the following internal
> functions.

Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

@ns is more significant so it should come first.

Where do we have the backwards convention of putting @name first?

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-12  3:39 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 [this message]
2013-09-12  3:49     ` Tejun Heo
2013-09-26 22:32       ` Greg KH
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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