On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 18:37 +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > >> Is platform_name particularly special? > > Yes. It is the symbol that is currently colliding with other subsystem > namespace. > > >> Perhaps it's be better to rename all the other > >> platform_<foo> uses to ia64_platform_<foo> > > > > That's good point in general, oh well I just wanted to make the minimal > > change.. > > Following that logic there isn't anything special about symbols starting with > "platform" ... and we should hunt down every global symbol in every > architecture > that is local to the architecture and replace it with $arch_$symbol. > > I think I'll just take the minimal patch to fix "platform_name" and continue > to > use a "fix as problems occur" algorithm to the namespace pollution problem.
That can lead to a lot of naming inconsistencies. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
