Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:23:28 -0700 | From | "Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Rename _bh to _softirq |
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At 12:42 PM 10/15/2002 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: "Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy" <maxk@qualcomm.com> > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:24:18 -0700 > > We don't give names to a functions based on the coolness, do we ? > ;-) > >cli() was cool too. But we did rename it.
>Just because you don't see that a base handler really is an >alias for softirq these days, doesn't mean we should delete it. Dave, you just confirmed that _bh is indeed confusing. And some people don't even know what it is ;-). _bh is not a "base handler" it stands for "bottom half".
Max
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