linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] init()/fini() clean up in the crypto

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Message-Id: <E1JetHQ-0000wK-Mk@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org>
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:40:36 +0100
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...abs.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init()/fini() clean up in the crypto

Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> This patch cleanups the crypto code, replaces the init() and fini()  with the
> <algorithm name>_init/_fini

This part ist OK.

> or init/fini_<algorithm name> (if the 
> <algorithm name>_init/_fini exist)

Having init_foo and foo_init won't be a good thing, will it? I'd start
confusing them.

What about foo_modinit instead?

¢¢

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