Re: Usage of leading underscore in linux kernel code.

2010-06-22 Thread StephanT
Hi Fabian, ... the convention in many systems is to use a leading underscore for low level functions that do little validation and should therefore not be used directly. Thank you for the kind explanation. I wasn't aware about this low_level vs. leading_underscore convention. Make

Re: Usage of leading underscore in linux kernel code.

2010-06-22 Thread Shaz
... the convention in many systems is to use a leading underscore for low level functions that do little validation and should therefore not be used directly. Thank you for the kind explanation. I wasn't aware about this low_level vs. leading_underscore convention. VS. ? Make

Re: Usage of leading underscore in linux kernel code.

2010-06-22 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Shaz shazal...@gmail.com wrote: ... the convention in many systems is to use a leading underscore for low level functions that do little validation and should therefore not be used directly. Thank you for the kind explanation. I wasn't aware about this

Re: Usage of leading underscore in linux kernel code.

2010-06-22 Thread Shaz
I didn't write it, but as a native speaker: vs. == versus In this case, that's not actually a great choice of words, but it read fine the first time I read it. lol :) I meant that the vs. was not getting the answer into the right form. It might be that Stephen is getting the thing

Re: Usage of leading underscore in linux kernel code.

2010-06-18 Thread Fabian Marin
as a warning, that you should not use these functions unless you know what you're doing. Regards! --- On Thu, 6/17/10, StephanT stman937-linew...@yahoo.com wrote: From: StephanT stman937-linew...@yahoo.com Subject: Usage of leading underscore in linux kernel code. To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Date