Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator

Christoph Lameter
2007-11-08T20:24:31Z

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > The convention for macros is to use upper case.
>
> We have plent macros that look like regular functions. And as a primary
> interface to this functionality these shouting things look really out of
> place.

One point of the patchset is to clean up the messy handling of the
allocpercpu interface which uses lower case for macros. It is a bit
confusing that a function like alloc_percpu() can take a type argument.
I think this needs to be uppercase for clarity.