Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753661Ab0ALISy (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:18:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752870Ab0ALISx (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:18:53 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41788 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752544Ab0ALISx (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:18:53 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:16:47 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Daisuke HATAYAMA Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mhiramat@redhat.com, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, andi@firstfloor.org, jdike@addtoit.com, tony.luck@intel.com Subject: Re: [RESEND][mmotm][PATCH v2, 0/5] elf coredump: Add extended numbering support Message-Id: <20100112001647.3b992391.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20100112.170503.112616928.d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20100107162928.1d6eba76.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100112.121232.189721840.d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100111192418.5cd8a554.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100112.170503.112616928.d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) 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: 653 Lines: 13 On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:05:03 +0900 (JST) Daisuke HATAYAMA wrote: > My concern is possibility of dump_seek()'s very short and general > naming wasting public name space and colliding other global names. My > idea is, for example, to rename it coredump_dump_seek(). OK. Yes, that would be a bit nicer. I'm sure we have lots more inappropriately named globals than that though. -- 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/