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From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add a kstrtobool function matching semantics of existing in kernel equivalents.
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:11:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D8A45E5.5@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110323184421.GA21728@kroah.com>

On 03/23/11 18:44, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 04:37:40PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>>> Ok, perhaps the name might need to be changed a bit, but the idea is
>>> still good to have.  Please try again.
>>>
>> Any thoughts on what naming would work?  Nothing immediately comes to mind
>> which is why I ended up pinching the kstrto* naming...
>>
>> reallysloppy_strtobool?
>> guessintent_strtobool?
> 
> usr_strtobool?  I don't care :)
That works for me.  Anything usr related is clearly sloppy ;)
> 
>> or the old classic underscore prefix to 'encourage' people to check what it does
>> before using it
>>
>> __strtobool?
> 
> Ick, no, that implies that no one outside of this file should call it.
> Or it should be called with locks held or some such "special" thing.
> Don't do that...
 I may have gotten a smidgen flippant ;)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-23 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-23 13:39 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Introduce kstrtobool function Jonathan Cameron
2011-03-23 13:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add a kstrtobool function matching semantics of existing in kernel equivalents Jonathan Cameron
2011-03-23 13:54   ` David Sterba
2011-03-23 14:00     ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-03-23 15:30   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-03-23 16:01     ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 16:15       ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-03-23 16:23         ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 16:37           ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-03-23 18:44             ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 19:11               ` Jonathan Cameron [this message]
2011-03-23 13:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] debugfs: move to new kstrtobool function Jonathan Cameron
2011-03-23 20:20   ` Ryan Mallon
2011-03-24 10:53     ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-03-23 13:39 ` [PATCH 3/3] params.c: Use new kstrtobool implementation to processing boolean inputs Jonathan Cameron
2011-03-23 13:42   ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-03-24  0:34 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] Introduce kstrtobool function Rusty Russell

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