Re: [PATCH 05/16] vfs: Use lowercase names of quota functions

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 06:35:40PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 27-01-09 12:13:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 05:48:38PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > Use lowercase names of quota functions instead of old uppercase ones.
> > 
> > Looking over this again I think the vfs_ names are a really bad choice.
> > The normal use for vfs_ are higher level functions that call into
> > specific filesystems, which these aren't really.  What about just
> > striping out that vfs_ prefix first?
>   Actually, these vfs_dq_ functions are usually just wrappers like:
> 
> static inline void vfs_dq_init(struct inode *inode)
> {
>         BUG_ON(!inode->i_sb);
>         if (sb_any_quota_active(inode->i_sb) && !IS_NOQUOTA(inode))
>                 inode->i_sb->dq_op->initialize(inode, -1);
> }
> 
>   where ->initialize either leads to a filesystem specified callback or to
> generic quota init function. So this seems to reasonably match your
> description above...
>   But if this still has not convinced you ;), I can change all these quota
> functions to have names starting with dq_. That should not clash with
> anything else. But I'm not very enthusiastic about this change (cleanups are
> so boring...).

Hmm, seems you're right - I must have been confused when looking at it.

Changing away from the weird uppercase names defintively is a good
thing.

Although for the ops inside the filesystem it might be better to just
call into the lowlevel operation instead of the vfs_ helper as we know
what we want, no?