To: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, video4linux-list@redhat.com,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, mchehab@infradead.org,
       Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] cafe_ccic: default to allocating DMA buffers at probe time 
From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:43:38 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:16:20 -0600
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Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:

> That said, I'm not opposed to keeping the parameter name the same while
> making the default 1; I just thought that the name 'alloc_bufs_at_read' was
> clearer.  Another option is to change it to 'no_alloc_bufs_at_load'.  Jon,
> any preference there?

I don't think that negating it by adding no_ at the front helps much.
In general, I prefer the name it has now, but it's not *that* big a
deal.  We've probably already expended more bandwidth than it's worth.

jon
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