Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:04:10 -0500
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc-patch 0/9] Immediate Values for 2.6.24-rc2-git5
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* Borislav Petkov (bbpetkov@yahoo.de) wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:31:39AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > * Borislav Petkov (bbpetkov@yahoo.de) wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 03:02:38PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > > Hi, 
> > > just a conventions proposal: have you thought of shortening all those
> > > "immediate_foo" prefixes to 'imm_foo', for example? This'll make the 
> > > code much more readable, i think.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hrm, a quick grep in the kernel tree shows me that the imm_* namespace
> > is already quite clobbered (although I do not detect any imm_read or
> > imm_set). 
> 
> Right, something called "low level driver for the IOMEGA MatchMaker"
> (drivers/scsi/imm.c) has gotten hold of the imm_* prefix already so there might
> be a problem later, probably. Nevertheless, you could use the imm_ prefix or
> choose some other 3-n letter prefix:
> 
> immed_* (3 matches)
> imme_* (no matches but dumb)
> imd_* (none!)
> immv_* (none, v like [v]alues), etc.
> ...
> 

I'd go for imv_* then, which indeed stands for "IMmediate Values"

> -- 
> Regards/Gru?,
>     Boris.

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Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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