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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	mrossibellom@gmail.com, elder@kernel.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] greybus: Fix coding stye error
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:08:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170127130806.GH3560@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170127124721.GP4201@mwanda>

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 03:47:21PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The name sucks is what I'm saying.  Please fix it eventually.

I disagree. The name uses a common prefix that reflects the object it is
working on. This should not be changed. As it is currently named, the
function is also self-documenting. Trying to abbreviate the name just to
meet a 80 col limit (when there are alternatives) is just silly.

Johan

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-27 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-27 10:11 [PATCH] greybus: Fix coding stye error mrossibellom
2017-01-27 10:17 ` Greg KH
2017-01-27 12:29 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-01-27 12:39   ` Johan Hovold
2017-01-27 12:47     ` Dan Carpenter
2017-01-27 13:08       ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2017-01-27 13:24         ` Dan Carpenter
2017-01-27 13:53           ` Johan Hovold
2017-01-27 14:13             ` Dan Carpenter
2017-01-27 14:37               ` Maxime Rossi Bellom
2017-01-27 14:43                 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-01-27 14:46                   ` Maxime Rossi Bellom

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