Re: [PATCH] tile: Add underscores to defintions

Nick Krause
2014-07-10T18:50:54Z

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> wrote:
> On 7/5/2014 12:32 AM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
>>
>> In file drv_xgbe_impl.h I fixed the definitions for Size Small,
>> Size Large, Size Jumbo to have underscores before and after to
>> follow kernel coding style for internel defentions.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> arch/tile/include/hv/drv_xgbe_impl.h | 15 +++------------
>
>
> I don't think there is a kernel coding style for internal definitions.
> It's true that double-underscores mean "more raw" in many places, like
> for things like set_bit() vs __set_bit(), but that's not really
> applicable here. These files are not exported outside of the kernel
> in any case so we don't need any special treatment for them to mark them
> as "internal definitions".
>
> The comment in any case certainly is silly. It dates back to Jan 2007
> in our internal version control system. The tilepro hv headers in
> question are largely frozen at this point in our internal "upstream"
> repository where we take these headers from, so it doesn't seem worth
> the effort to try to improve the comments there, nor worth adding skew
> between those headers and the community headers.
>
> --
> Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
> http://www.tilera.com
Chris ,
Would you like me to remove this comment in a patch instead?
Cheers Nick