Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:18:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:18:24 -0400 Received: from numenor.qualcomm.com ([129.46.51.58]:46735 "EHLO numenor.qualcomm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:18:23 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021015131839.01c1a008@mail1.qualcomm.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:23:28 -0700 To: "David S. Miller" From: "Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy" Subject: Re: [RFC] Rename _bh to _softirq Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20021015.124204.108190832.davem@redhat.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021015121958.01b4acd8@mail1.qualcomm.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021015093146.05eb7738@mail1.qualcomm.com> <20021015.104423.36363214.davem@redhat.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021015121958.01b4acd8@mail1.qualcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 27 At 12:42 PM 10/15/2002 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: "Maksim (Max) Krasnyanskiy" > 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 - 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/