Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759467AbZDOKwA (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:52:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758813AbZDOKvr (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:51:47 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:55473 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758777AbZDOKvp (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:51:45 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: RFC: introduce struct ksymbol Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:21:40 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-11-generic; KDE/4.2.2; i686; ; ) Cc: Joe Perches , Sam Ravnborg , Frederic Weisbecker , Steven Rostedt , Zhaolei , Tom Zanussi , Li Zefan , LKML , Andrew Morton References: <1239753659-11790-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <1239771791.32241.6.camel@localhost> <20090415055839.GA12040@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090415055839.GA12040@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200904152021.41427.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 19 On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:28:39 pm Ingo Molnar wrote: > Why not 'struct ksym'? That name is unused right now, it is shorter > and just as descriptive. > > Regarding the change... dunno. Sam, Rusty - what do you think? Yes, ksym is nice. But agree with you that it's marginal obfuscation to wrap it in a struct. The current symbol printing APIs are awful; we should address them first (like the %pF patch does) IMHO. Cheers, Rusty. -- 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/