Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:00:19 -0700 | From | Kent Overstreet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH percpu/for-3.11 2/2] percpu-refcount: implement percpu_ref_cancel_init() |
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > At first I named it percpu_ref_free() but it looked too symmetric to > init, more so than kill, so I was worried that people might get > confused that this is the normal interface to shutdown a percpu > refcnt, so the weird cancel_init name and further restriction on its > usage.
...Yeah, confusion with _kill() is a good point. Ok, cancel_init() it is.
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