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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Muthu Kumar <muthu.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: functions named similar (pci_acpi_init)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:00:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060428000026.GA29421@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7da560840604271637n65106962k180234c116614d94@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:37:59PM -0700, Muthu Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> While looking at something else, got drifted to looking into
> initcall<n>.init. I found two instance of pci_acpi_init() function,
> one in drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c and another in i386/pci/acpi.c.
> I understand this doesnot cause any problem since they are static, but
> someone new looking at the code could fall for it? Is it worth
> changing one of its name or should I just go away :)

If you think changing one of them would help future readers of the code,
sure, feel free to send a patch.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-28  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-27 23:37 functions named similar (pci_acpi_init) Muthu Kumar
2006-04-28  0:00 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-04-28  0:27   ` Muthu Kumar
2006-04-28  3:23     ` Greg KH
2006-04-28  7:42       ` Muthu Kumar

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