On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:28:32AM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote: > I also do not believe that kernel must use the constant names > mentioned in the specification especially when the name reaches 50 > characters. We can not get away from having to create aliases. Do > you think having aliases in efi.h can cause mixed use of long names > and short names in future code in the kernel? Can we address this by > suggesting to future code authors that they should use the short > names in their code? Should we consider inclusion of this patch in > the kernel?
I'd be surprised if it were a problem - we should catch any of those cases in code review, or gate the aliases under #ifndef __KERNEL__ -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
