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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/10] staging: hv: Convert camel cased struct fields in hv.h to lower cases
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 06:27:04PM +0000, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@suse.de]
> > Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 1:43 PM
> > Why did I get two different copies of some of these patches? Are they
> > different?
>
> They are the same.
> Initially, I sent all 10 patches out at the same time, but I only saw 5 of them in my mail box. So I re-sent the 5 missing ones. Half hour later, I found the 5 previous missing emails were not lost, and received again at a later time.

Ah, ok.

Oh, please wrap your emails properly :)

> > > /* The one and only */
> > > -struct hv_context gHvContext = {
> > > - .SynICInitialized = false,
> > > - .HypercallPage = NULL,
> > > - .SignalEventParam = NULL,
> > > - .SignalEventBuffer = NULL,
> > > +struct hv_context g_hv_context = {
> >
> > What is the "g_" for? Why are you keeping the unneeded, and unwanted
> > hungarian notation around? Please don't do that.
>
> The "g_" was used for global variables. I also saw some other global
> variables with the hungarian notation. Since this notation is not
> related to camel case conversion, how about we remove the hungarian
> notations in a separate patch?

How about you fix this patch in the series and resend them?

And if you look at the kernel, there is no "g_" for global variable
names, so I don't want to see that as part of the history at all.

I'll drop these series and wait for an updated one.

thanks,

greg k-h


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