linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Make place for common balloon code

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Message-ID: <YvuF8CsP0M1TAK1a@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Aug 2022 13:56:32 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Alexander Atanasov <alexander.atanasov@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        VMware PV-Drivers Reviewers <pv-drivers@...are.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, kernel@...nvz.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Make place for common balloon code

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 02:47:22PM +0300, Alexander Atanasov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 16.08.22 12:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 12:41:14PM +0300, Alexander Atanasov wrote:
> 
> > >   rename include/linux/{balloon_compaction.h => balloon_common.h} (99%)
> > 
> > Why rename the .h file?  It still handles the "balloon compaction"
> > logic.
> 
> File contains code that is common to balloon drivers,
> compaction is only part of it. Series add more code to it.
> Since it was suggested to use it for such common code.
> I find that common becomes a better name for it so the rename.
> I can drop the rename easy on next iteration if you suggest to.

"balloon_common.h" is very vague, you should only need one balloon.h
file in the include/linux/ directory, right, so of course it is "common"
:)

thanks,

greg "naming is hard" k-h