On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:12:35PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 19:45 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > > -static void ring_buffer_put(struct ring_buffer *rb) > > +void ring_buffer_put(struct ring_buffer *rb) > > { > > struct perf_event *event, *n; > > unsigned long flags; > > I have to say that it is really unfortunate that we have two ring > buffers in the kernel, called struct ring_buffer. One being global and > one being local to events. And now we are exporting the name > "ring_buffer_*" too! This is going to confuse the hell out of people. > > Perhaps this should have been called perf_buffer, as that is what it's > used for.
How about we prepend all non-static stuff which is part of the perf ring buffer with "perf_" ? This way we'll have perf_ring_buffer_put() and the namespace is still short enough and tells you exactly which buffer we're talking about. Hmm? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- 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/