linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/28] lib/printbuf: New data structure for printing strings

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Date:   Thu, 26 May 2022 08:36:14 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...r.kernel.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, senozhatsky@...omium.org,
        andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, willy@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/28] lib/printbuf: New data structure for printing
 strings

On Thu, 2022-05-26 at 11:21 -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 05:06:15PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > The "pr_" prefix is a nightmare for me because the same prefix
> > is used also for printk() API ;-)
> > 
> > Could we please use "pb_" instead?
> 
> I'm not entirely against that, but I see printbufs as already in this patchset
> tightly coupled to vsprintf.c and thus quite related to printk, as well - and
> there aren't that many different pr_ things. So I think the shared prefix makes
> some sense, I'd like to hear what others think before making that change.

I think the reused prefix is not good.
bufs are not printks.