Re: thunderbolt: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "ring_free"

Joe Perches
2014-11-23T15:56:45Z

On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 16:45 +0100, Andreas Noever wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 15:14 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> >> 2. Are any additional prefixes appropriate so that further name space
> >> >> conflicts can be better avoided?
> >> >
> >> > To avoid possible external naming conflicts, add tb_ prefix to
> >> > various ring_<foo> structs and functions.
> >>
> >> Do you imagine that any XEN software developers need also to reconsider
> >> this implementation detail?
> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/drivers/char/tpm/xen-tpmfront.c?id=fc14f9c1272f62c3e8d01300f52467c0d9af50f9#n268
> >
> > I think static functions can be named whatever
> > the developer chooses.
> Do symbols which are not exported (no EXPORT_SYMBOL_(GPL)) cause
> conflicts?

If the symbol is not static, yes.

eg: the static uses of "debug" as a control
variable vs the non-static uses of <prefix>debug
when shared among multiple objects in a single
driver.