Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760283AbZASMum (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:50:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759047AbZASMud (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:50:33 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:37489 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759025AbZASMud (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:50:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:52:42 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Cornelia Huck Cc: Dave Chinner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] async: Add some documentation. Message-ID: <20090119045242.73ba210f@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090119132744.0beee067@gondolin> References: <20090113174306.0f620476@gondolin> <20090114024952.GS8071@disturbed> <20090114112450.1a1af271@gondolin> <20090118163912.55f835a0@infradead.org> <20090119044045.GA6654@disturbed> <20090119132744.0beee067@gondolin> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.14.5; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1101 Lines: 31 On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:27:44 +0100 Cornelia Huck wrote: > > > > > > I had it as that at first. But it is ugly; naming a function > > > after its arguments is useless; it should be named after what it > > > does instead. > > > > > > I buy that "special" is not a good name. Would "local" be better? > > > The name needs to convey that it is for a specific synchronization > > > context.... > > > > Yeah, local is sounds ok - it's certainly more obvious > > that it's a scope modifier for the synchronisation primitive. > > Hm, I don't like _local too much. How about _subset, or _context, or > _scope? or _domain ? and phrase stuff such that you have synchronization domains? -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/