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>> I think it's a good thing that we have to take a little more care when >> choosing global function and variable names... Take up() for example - >> in my (very humble) oppinion that is a very bad name for a global >> function - it clashes too easily with local function and variable >> names, and a programmer who's not careful may end up calling the >> global up() when he wants the local and vice versa (a much better name >> would have been sem_up() - should we change that???). > >(authors of (yet) off-tree things would hate us) Mark up() as deprecated while sem_up() emerges - hey, we even have an __attribute__(()) for that.. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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