Re: [rfc-patch 0/9] Immediate Values for 2.6.24-rc2-git5

Borislav Petkov
2007-11-20T05:13:00Z

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:31:39AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Borislav Petkov (bbpetkov@yahoo.de) wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:02:38PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > Hi,
> > just a conventions proposal: have you thought of shortening all those
> > "immediate_foo" prefixes to 'imm_foo', for example? This'll make the
> > code much more readable, i think.
> >
>
> Hrm, a quick grep in the kernel tree shows me that the imm_* namespace
> is already quite clobbered (although I do not detect any imm_read or
> imm_set).

Right, something called "low level driver for the IOMEGA MatchMaker"
(drivers/scsi/imm.c) has gotten hold of the imm_* prefix already so there might
be a problem later, probably. Nevertheless, you could use the imm_ prefix or
choose some other 3-n letter prefix:

immed_* (3 matches)
imme_* (no matches but dumb)
imd_* (none!)
immv_* (none, v like [v]alues), etc.
...

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Regards/Gruß,
Boris.