linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/10] staging: hv: Convert camel cased struct fields in hv.h to lower cases

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Date:	Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:43:10 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...uxonhyperv.com>
Cc:	haiyangz@...rosoft.com, hjanssen@...rosoft.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] staging: hv: Convert camel cased struct fields
	in hv.h to lower cases

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:53:45AM -0700, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
> 
> Convert camel cased struct fields in hv.h to lower cases
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@...rosoft.com>

Why did I get two different copies of some of these patches?  Are they
different?

>  /* The one and only */
> -struct hv_context gHvContext = {
> -	.SynICInitialized	= false,
> -	.HypercallPage		= NULL,
> -	.SignalEventParam	= NULL,
> -	.SignalEventBuffer	= NULL,
> +struct hv_context g_hv_context = {

What is the "g_" for?  Why are you keeping the unneeded, and unwanted
hungarian notation around?  Please don't do that.

thanks,

greg k-h
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