Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/27] VFS: Introduce the structs and doc for a filesystem context [ver #5] | From | Jeff Layton <> | Date | Sat, 17 Jun 2017 10:56:32 -0400 |
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On Sat, 2017-06-17 at 15:18 +0100, David Howells wrote: > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > > > I don't know that this is a hard and fast rule. Struct bio uses a > > "bi_" prefix (e.g., bi_error, bi_opf, bi_iter, etc.). > > Linus told me to stop doing it. > > David
That's a pity... I tend to like little prefixes on fields too. Trying to find all occurrences of a symbol called "flags" in cscope is a losing exercise.
Do you have a reference to the discussion so I can understand the rationale there?
Thanks, -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
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