Return-path: Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:2028 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756512Ab0K3UTh (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:19:37 -0500 Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH wireless-next] ath: Rename ath_print to ath_debug From: Joe Perches To: Felix Fietkau Cc: peter@stuge.se, ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless In-Reply-To: <4CF464D6.2020507@openwrt.org> References: <5febb0e1fba0ec2bb77f6ade8b251ba0edf4614c.1290988277.git.joe@perches.com> <20101129060732.5130.qmail@stuge.se> <4CF42C17.2070500@openwrt.org> <1291081185.16349.133.camel@Joe-Laptop> <4CF464D6.2020507@openwrt.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:19:35 -0800 Message-ID: <1291148375.18026.342.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 03:43 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2010-11-30 2:39 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > > I gauge my willingness to spend time on subsystems on > > the maintainers willingness to merge things that improve > > readability and correctness. > I'm not trying to discourage you from spending time on improving this > code, just doubting the usefulness of such simple function renames. Poor function naming is just that. It reduces readability and the uses are counter expectation.