Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759132AbZDSIf2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:35:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753744AbZDSIfQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:35:16 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:40015 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751966AbZDSIfP (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:35:15 -0400 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:35:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090419.013504.175627328.davem@davemloft.net> To: g.liakhovetski@gmx.de Cc: florian@openwrt.org, peter@holik.at, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb driver for intellon based PLC like devolo dlan duo From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20090418.211503.13481677.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 790 Lines: 16 From: Guennadi Liakhovetski Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:32:24 +0200 (CEST) > Ok, we currently have drivers for mt9m001, mt9m111, mt9t031, and mt9v022. > Which letter would you take for them?:-) You'd have to take at least two > characters like "m0", "m1", "t0", and "v0" but that wouldn't be very > intuitive IMHO either. Take four characters like m001r16() and it looks > pretty bad compared to all routines being called mt9m001_*. Then mt9m001_FOO() is what you use if you know that such other similar names exist. -- 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/