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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] ALSA: control: arrange snd_ctl_new()
	as a local function
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:04:40 +0100
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At Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:49:29 +0100,
Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> 
> On 02/11/2015 11:37 AM, Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> [...]
> > -/**
> > - * snd_ctl_new - create a control instance from the template
> > - * @control: the control template
> > - * @access: the default control access
> > - *
> > - * Allocates a new struct snd_kcontrol instance and copies the given template
> > - * to the new instance. It does not copy volatile data (access).
> > - *
> > - * Return: The pointer of the new instance, or %NULL on failure.
> > - */
> > -static struct snd_kcontrol *snd_ctl_new(struct snd_kcontrol *control,
> > -					unsigned int access)
> > +static struct snd_kcontrol *ctl_new(struct snd_kcontrol *control,
> 
> I'd prefer to keep both the documentation as well as the 'snd_' prefix. 
> Maybe just replace the '/**' with '/*' to prevent it from appearing in the 
> public API documentation.

Yes, agreed.  There is no strict rule about snd_ prefix for
non-exported objects.  We prefer not having snd_ prefix for local
stuff in general just for readability.  But in this case, it doesn't
improve so much.


Takashi