> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony PERARD [mailto:anthony.per...@citrix.com]
> Sent: 04 December 2018 12:11
> To: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com>
> Cc: qemu-bl...@nongnu.org; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; xen-
> de...@lists.xenproject.org; Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org>;
> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>; Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>; Max
> Reitz <mre...@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/18] xen: purge 'blk' and 'ioreq' from function
> names in dataplane/xen-qdisk.c
> 
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 03:12:06PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > This is a purely cosmetic patch that purges remaining use of 'blk' and
> > 'ioreq' in local function names.
> >
> > No functional change.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com>
> 
> I don't think it's a good idee to use function names that could be use
> elsewhere, don't have a namespace. It makes it more difficult to figure
> out which function is called by just searching for the function name.
> 
> Could you had a prefix?
> Maybe xendisk_ or xen_disk or xen_qdisk or xen_block or ..., so we can
> have xendisk_start_request, or xendisk_request_start. I don't have a
> preference beside staying away from generic names.
> 

I'll add a xen_block_ prefix.

  Paul

> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Anthony PERARD

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