linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/11] uml ubd driver: var renames

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:14:54 -0500
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	"Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" <blaisorblade@...oo.it>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] uml ubd driver: var renames

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:20:29PM +0100, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso wrote:
> From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@...oo.it>
> 
> and then call any "struct ubd" ubd_dev instead of dev, which doesn't
> make clear what we're treating (and no, it's not hungarian notation -
> not any more than calling all vm_area_struct vma or all inodes
> inode).

I can't say that I like this part of it.  I don't see any alternate
interpretation of a variable called 'dev', and renaming it to
'ubd_dev' seems redundant, given that we are in the ubd driver.

Plus, this change sent a couple of lines over the 80-character
boundary.

				Jeff

Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/