From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53141C47083 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2021 01:40:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2382161186 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2021 01:40:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232505AbhFABmG (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 May 2021 21:42:06 -0400 Received: from szxga08-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.255]:3309 "EHLO szxga08-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232207AbhFABmG (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 May 2021 21:42:06 -0400 Received: from dggemv704-chm.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.53]) by szxga08-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4FvF986B4rz1BFXw; Tue, 1 Jun 2021 09:35:40 +0800 (CST) Received: from dggpemm500006.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.236) by dggemv704-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.47) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2176.2; Tue, 1 Jun 2021 09:40:21 +0800 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (10.174.177.72) by dggpemm500006.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.236) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2176.2; Tue, 1 Jun 2021 09:40:20 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] edac: Use 'ret' instead of 'res' to store the return value To: Borislav Petkov CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Tony Luck , James Morse , Robert Richter , Johannes Thumshirn , Ralf Baechle , Dinh Nguyen , Jan Luebbe , Andre Przywara , "Channagoud Kadabi" , Venkata Narendra Kumar Gutta , Andy Gross , Bjorn Andersson , Khuong Dinh , York Sun , linux-edac , linux-mips , linux-arm-msm , linux-kernel References: <20210531145302.9655-1-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> <20210531145302.9655-4-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> From: "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" Message-ID: <4f96d85f-a7a6-531b-a032-a04e51a218cc@huawei.com> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 09:40:19 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.174.177.72] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems706-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.183) To dggpemm500006.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.236) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org On 2021/5/31 22:57, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 10:53:02PM +0800, Zhen Lei wrote: >> Usually 'ret' or 'rc' is used as the abbreviation for 'return code', and >> 'res' is used as the abbreviation for 'resource'. > > Or "result." https://www.allacronyms.com/result/abbreviated It seems 'res' is the right abbreviation for 'result'. But since people see 'res', it's easier to associate 'resource', it's probably better to use it sparingly. And it seems that 'ret' and 'rc' are used more frequently. However, the greens and radishes have their own love. So I'm fine with ignoring this patch. > > Please refrain from doing pointless patches like that - it is a totally > unnecessary churn. OK >