linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] PTRACE

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:47:15 -0400
From:	Joe Korty <joe.korty@...r.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@....de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PTRACE_PEEKDATA consolidation

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 12:52:25AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:35:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 12:40:06AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > Identical implementations of PTRACE_PEEKDATA go into
> > > simple_ptrace_peekdata() function.
> > >
> > > compile-tested on ~half of archs, playing with gdb on x86_64.
> >
> > Looks good.  Why don't you call it generic_ptrace_peekdata instead of
> > simple_ptrace_peekdata, though?
> 
> Because they're simple :) I was probably spoiled by libfs.c .

The problem with names like 'simple_*' is that, as the years go by,
simple code grows to become complex code, and then the prefix 'simple'
doesn't apply anymore.

Regards,
Joe
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