Re: [PATCH 02/17] mips: namespace pollution - mem_... -> __mem_... in io.h

[Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 04:21:45PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> > >  Then the corresponding ones with no "mem_" prefix (these for the PCI I/O 
> > > port space) should be prefixed with "__" for consistency as well.
> > 
> > Huh???
> > 
> > Things like outb(), etc. *are* public; mem_... ones are not. 
> 
>  I mean if we rename e.g. mem_ioswabb() to __mem_ioswabb(), then we should 
> rename ioswabb() to __ioswabb() as well.  Sorry for not having been clear 
> enough, but I have assumed it is obvious.

In principle that would be nice, but...  Take a look at those macros.
We can do that, but it would mean #define readb __readb, etc.  Since
really nasty clashes are in mem_inb() et.al. (let's face it, coming up
with one of those is far more likely than using ioswabb() for driver-internal
purposes) I've stopped at that.  Can do a followup switching to __ioswab...
and adding defines compensating for changes in visible symbols, but IMO
that's a separate patch...