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

Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-20T17:04:22Z

* Borislav Petkov (bbpetkov@yahoo.de) wrote:
> 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.
> ...
>

I'd go for imv_* then, which indeed stands for "IMmediate Values"

> --
> Regards/Gruß,
> Boris.