Re: [RFC][patch 02/12] remove clocksource inline functions

[Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:50:22 -0400
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:36 EDT, Christoph Hellwig said:
> > > You know that a priori because you're familiar with that code. But there's
> > > another use case: An idiot monkey like myself manages to break the kernel
> > > *again* in some part of the kernel they're totally unfamiliar with, and
> > > they need to discover for themselves that timekeeping.c is the only user.
> > > 
> > > (Of course, in another 5-6 years I'll probably have broken something in
> > > every part of the kernel and whinged at Andrew about it, and that argument
> > > won't apply anymore.. ;)
> > 
> > Andthe poor grepping monkey can be sure that everyone used the useless
> > wrapper exactly how?  If you want to help people with grepping rename
> > the method from read to clocksource_read..
> 
> Even better. ;)
 
With the same reasoning you could argue that f_ops->read should be
renamed to f_ops->file_read. And why is it so important to be able
to grep for clocksource_read? Not that a patch to rename read to
clocksource_read is hard but before I go ahead an do the rename for 60+
clocksources in the kernel I would like to have a better reason than
"I might want to grep it".

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   Martin.

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