From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: john@jjdev.com (John de la Garza)
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 20:29:40 -0700
Subject: naming conventions
Message-ID: <20170723032937.GA14608@crux>
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org

Are there naming conventions that are preferred for functions?  I'm seeing
somethings named foo_free, free_foo, foo_init, init_foo, etc.

Consistency provides names that are easy to guess/learn.

examples from: linux/kernel/fork.c
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static void free_thread_stack(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
        kmem_cache_free(thread_stack_cache, tsk->stack);                              
}

void thread_stack_cache_init(void)
{
        thread_stack_cache = kmem_cache_create("thread_stack", THREAD_SIZE,
                                              THREAD_SIZE, 0, NULL);                  
        BUG_ON(thread_stack_cache == NULL);                                           
}

if (init_new_context(p, mm))