On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 16:34 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > So - kvmppc_define_rtas_in_kernel() or kvmppc_define_rtas_kernel_token()? > > The former probably.
I told him the latter :-) Honestly, your name is gross :-) Mine describes exactly what the calls does. > > I would actually though that the very first "k" is for "Kernel" already > > but... > > I a symmetric API you could also remove rtas handling from the kernel, so you > could tell the kernel "handle this in kernel space" and "don't handle this in > kernel space". Our naming needs to be precise enough that you can guess what > is going on from it. But that's not quite what the API is doing and we don't want a symetric API it's pointless. Yet another "my CS teacher told me a good API is symetric" (oh and that's a nice word "symetric", it sounds *good*, using it makes it look like we are plenty smart !) but in the end totally pointless for the problem at hand. Ben.
