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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: introduce struct ksymbol
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:21:40 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904152021.41427.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090415055839.GA12040@elte.hu>

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-15 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-15  0:00 [PATCH] vsprintf: introduce %pf Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-15  0:09 ` Joe Perches
2009-04-15  0:13   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-15  1:57 ` Zhaolei
2009-04-15 15:26   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-15  2:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-04-15  2:38   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-15  3:13     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-15 15:48     ` [PATCH v2] " Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-18 17:51       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-04-29 19:09       ` [tip:core/printk] vsprintf: introduce %pf format specifier tip-bot for Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-15 15:29   ` [PATCH] vsprintf: introduce %pf Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-15  5:03 ` RFC: introduce struct ksymbol Joe Perches
2009-04-15  5:58   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15  6:13     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-04-15  6:31       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-15 15:52         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-15  6:14     ` Joe Perches
2009-04-15 10:51     ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-04-17  7:55       ` Joe Perches
2009-04-18 16:09         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-19  2:05           ` Joe Perches
2009-04-23  1:31           ` Joe Perches

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