linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

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Date:	Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:27:08 -0500
From:	Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...hat.com>
To:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
CC:	Erik Mouw <erik@...ddisk-recovery.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Erik,
> 
>>>> can you please use drivers/firewire/ if you want to start clean or
>>>> aiming at replacing drivers/ieee1394/. Using "fw" as an abbreviation in
>>>> the directory path is not really helpful.
>>> Yes, that's probably a better idea.  Do you see a problem with using fw_* 
>>> as a prefix in the code though?  I don't see anybody using that prefix, but 
>>> Stefan pointed out to me that it's often used to abbreviate firmware too.
>> So what about fiwi_*? If that's too close to wifi_*, try frwr_.
> 
> please don't. These kind of abbreviations make my brain tilt. For the
> directory name you basically should use the full name. In this case it
> will be drivers/ieee1394/ or drivers/firewire/. Nothing else is really
> acceptable and if you look at other subsystems, you will see that they
> always use the long name.
> 
> For the exported public functions you might wanna use abbreviations, but
> in general I don't recommend it. And normally we only talk about a
> limited functions that are needed to be exposed via EXPORT_SYMBOL.

I think I'll stick with my fw_* prefix for now, it's nice and short and not 
too cryptic.  I'm only exporting a small set of functions anyway, and they're 
all only used inside the firewire stack.

Kristian

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