linux-kernel - Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH wireless-next] ath: Rename ath_print to ath

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Message-ID: <AANLkTik2qtGUgkZYSjcEH9jHHsevKnxOvz4s6On94U9o@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:56:35 -0800
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	ath9k-devel@...ts.ath9k.org, peter@...ge.se,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH wireless-next] ath: Rename ath_print to ath_debug

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 03:43 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> On 2010-11-30 2:39 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>> > I gauge my willingness to spend time on subsystems on
>> > the maintainers willingness to merge things that improve
>> > readability and correctness.
>> I'm not trying to discourage you from spending time on improving this
>> code, just doubting the usefulness of such simple function renames.
>
> Poor function naming is just that.
> It reduces readability and the uses are counter expectation.

The name is perfect, we use it to print anything, even non-debugging stuff.

  Luis
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