On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 22:58 +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > When we talk about changing the parameters it might make sense to also think > about some comments from George Spelvin and consider a rename to WRITE_ONCE > or STORE_ONCE (READ_ONCE --> LOAD_ONCE). Unfortunately there doesnt seem to > be a variant that is fool proof (in the sense of Rustys guideline that a good > interface cannot be used wrong). So any proposal in that regard would be very > welcome.
I think any of those two names are a lot better than what we have now. I'm a bit inclined towards LOAD/STORE though. That, and reordering the arguments for stores would make it pretty fool proof imo. Thanks, Davidlohr -- 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/
