linux-kernel - Re: [patch 09/11] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec

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Message-ID: <20090310144214.GG3850@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:42:14 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 09/11] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec


* prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> +	disable_debug_registers();

naming nit: please name them properly:

   breakpoints_disable();
   breakpoints_enable();

new kernel APIs always get named left to right in ascending 
specificity order.

	Ingo
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