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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:07:14 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, ralf@linux-mips.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mips: namespace pollution: dump_regs() -> elf_dump_regs()
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:07:09PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> > dump_regs() is used by a bunch of drivers for their internal stuff;
> > renamed mips instance (one that is seen in system-wide headers)
> > to elf_dump_regs()
> 
>  I guess drivers should be fixed not to use generic names in the first 
> place -> s/dump_regs/frobnicator_dump_regs/, etc.

No.  If nothing else, it's far less work to keep the headers reasonably
clean than to slap prefices on every damn static-in-file function
out there.  Leads to more readable code in drivers, too...