On 05/14/2014 08:41 AM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 05:30:59PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> From: Uma Sharma <uma.sharma...@gmail.com>
>>
>> The variable and struct both having the name "rcu_state" confuses
>> sparse in some situations, so this commit changes the variable to
>> "rcu_state_p" in order to avoid this confusion.  This also makes
>> things easier for human readers.
> 
> Human readers aside, how does Sparse get confused?  Let's fix that.

ack that.  Has it been reported on linux-sparse mailing list?

> Personally, I don't think the _p makes things particularly easier for
> human readers, but it doesn't make things *harder* for anyone other than
> those used to reading the existing code, so, *shrug*.


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~Randy
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