On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:29:15 -0800 (PST) Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:22:03 -0800 (PST) > > Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com> wrote: > > > > > +/* > > > + * llseek SEEK_DATA or SEEK_HOLE through the radix_tree. > > > + */ > > > +static pgoff_t shmem_seek_hole_data(struct address_space *mapping, > > > + pgoff_t index, pgoff_t end, int origin) > > > > So I was starting at this wondering what on earth "origin" is and why > > it has the fishy-in-this-context type "int". > > > > There is a pretty well established convention that the lseek seek mode > > is called "whence". > > > > The below gets most of it. Too anal? > > No, not too anal: I'm all in favour of "whence", which is indeed > the name of that lseek argument - since mediaeval times I believe. Alas, the rest of us don't have personal memories from those days. > It's good to have words like that in the kernel source: while you're > in the mood, please see if you can find good homes for "whither" and > "thrice" and "widdershins". We use "thrice" quite a lot. And "whither" once coz alfa peeps cnat spel. No widdershins yet. -- 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/
