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From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
To: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org,
	video4linux-list@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	mchehab@infradead.org, Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] cafe_ccic: default to allocating DMA buffers at probe time
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:16:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068.1190301380@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:43:38 EDT." <20070919184338.64fc6e89.dilinger@queued.net>

Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:

> That said, I'm not opposed to keeping the parameter name the same while
> making the default 1; I just thought that the name 'alloc_bufs_at_read' was
> clearer.  Another option is to change it to 'no_alloc_bufs_at_load'.  Jon,
> any preference there?

I don't think that negating it by adding no_ at the front helps much.
In general, I prefer the name it has now, but it's not *that* big a
deal.  We've probably already expended more bandwidth than it's worth.

jon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-20 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-19  5:44 [PATCH] cafe_ccic: default to allocating DMA buffers at probe time Andres Salomon
2007-09-19 19:31 ` Jonathan Corbet
2007-09-19 22:34   ` [v4l-dvb-maintainer] " Trent Piepho
2007-09-19 22:43     ` Andres Salomon
2007-09-20  0:08       ` Trent Piepho
2007-09-20 15:16       ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2007-09-24 15:04 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2007-09-25  6:02   ` Andres Salomon

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