Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756874Ab1D0UYy (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:24:54 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48374 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754237Ab1D0UYx (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:24:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4DB87B74.80104@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:24:20 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Fedora/3.1.9-0.39.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt CC: Pekka Enberg , Thiago Farina , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan , Rusty Russell , Ingo Molnar , "David S. Miller" , Al Viro , "Ted Ts'o" , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/string.h: Introduce streq macro. References: <1303926576.18763.75.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <4DB86163.2070201@zytor.com> <1303931761.18763.101.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <1303934694.18763.112.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1303934694.18763.112.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 700 Lines: 16 On 04/27/2011 01:04 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > It's no different than having printk() instead of printf(). Which IMO was a mistake in Linux. It would be different if the priority argument had been explicit (although these days it's functionally required, which sort-of justifies a different name.) kmalloc(), kstrdup() etc. have different names because they're different interfaces, which don't duplicate the malloc(), strdup() etc. semantics. -hpa -- 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/