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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: "annie.li@oracle.com" <annie.li@oracle.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"jeremy@goop.org" <jeremy@goop.org>,
	"kurt.hackel@oracle.com" <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Introducing grant table V2 stucture
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 09:49:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111109144922.GC8410@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <291EDFCB1E9E224A99088639C4762022B4543AB1BD@LONPMAILBOX01.citrite.net>

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:11:22AM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> Annie,
> 
>   Comments inline below...
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> [snip]
> > -static struct grant_entry *shared;
> > +static union {
> > +	struct grant_entry_v1 *v1;
> > +	void *ring_addr;
> > +} shared;
> > +
> 
> 'ring_addr' seems like the wrong name here; how about 'raw'?

Or 'ring'. I asked Annie to change it from 'raw' to something else and the first
thing that came in my mind was 'ring_addr'. But this does not point to a ring, so
the 'ring' part is wrong.

Point here is to make it descriptive. 'raw' does not carry meaning of _what_
it is suppose to do. 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-09 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-09  8:12 patches of upstreaming grant table version 2 ANNIE LI
2011-11-09  8:14 ` [PATCH 1/3] Introducing grant table V2 stucture annie.li
2011-11-09 11:11   ` Paul Durrant
2011-11-09 14:49     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-11-09 14:56       ` Paul Durrant
     [not found]         ` <4EBAA3B1.8010401@oracle.com>
2011-11-09 16:22           ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2011-11-10  1:56             ` ANNIE LI
     [not found]     ` <4EBAA566.80909@oracle.com>
2011-11-09 16:14       ` Paul Durrant
2011-11-10  1:50         ` [Xen-devel] " ANNIE LI
2011-11-09 13:28   ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2011-11-09  8:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] Grant tables v2 implementation annie.li
2011-11-09 13:32   ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2011-11-09  8:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] code clean up annie.li
2011-11-09 11:15   ` Paul Durrant
2011-11-09 12:18     ` [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2011-11-09  9:05 ` [Xen-devel] patches of upstreaming grant table version 2 ANNIE LI

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