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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl•org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg•org>
Cc: chris.leech@gmail•com, christopher.leech@intel•com,
	jeff@garzik•org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Discourage duplicate symbols in the kernel? [Was: Intel I/O Acc...]
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 01:18:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060305011852.368c016e.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060305090251.GA9116@mars.ravnborg.org>

Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg•org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 12:09:33AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > > +
>  > > +static inline u8 read_reg8(struct cb_device *device, unsigned int offset)
>  > > +{
>  > > +	return readb(device->reg_base + offset);
>  > > +}
>  > 
>  > These are fairly generic-sounding names.  In fact the as-yet-unmerged tiacx
>  > wireless driver is already using these, privately to
>  > drivers/net/wireless/tiacx/pci.c.
> 
>  Do we in general discourage duplicate symbols even if they are static?

Well, it's a bit irritating that it confuses ctags.  But in this case, one
set is in a header file so the risk of collisions is much-increased.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-05  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-03 21:40 [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) Chris Leech
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 1/8] [I/OAT] DMA memcpy subsystem Chris Leech
2006-03-04  1:40   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-06 19:39     ` Chris Leech
2006-03-04 19:20   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-06 19:48     ` Chris Leech
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 3/8] [I/OAT] Setup the networking subsystem as a DMA client Chris Leech
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 4/8] [I/OAT] Utility functions for offloading sk_buff to iovec copies Chris Leech
2006-03-05  7:15   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 5/8] [I/OAT] Structure changes for TCP recv offload to I/OAT Chris Leech
2006-03-05  7:19   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 6/8] [I/OAT] Rename cleanup_rbuf to tcp_cleanup_rbuf and make non-static Chris Leech
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 7/8] [I/OAT] Add a sysctl for tuning the I/OAT offloaded I/O threshold Chris Leech
2006-03-04 11:22   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-03-05  7:21   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 8/8] [I/OAT] TCP recv offload to I/OAT Chris Leech
2006-03-04 16:39   ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-04 23:18   ` Greg KH
2006-03-06 19:28     ` Chris Leech
2006-03-05  7:30   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-05  8:45   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-05 10:27     ` David S. Miller
2006-03-06 19:36     ` Chris Leech
2006-03-03 22:27 ` [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) Jeff Garzik
2006-03-03 22:39   ` Chris Leech
2006-03-03 22:45     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-04 11:35     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-03-05  8:09     ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-05  9:02       ` Discourage duplicate symbols in the kernel? [Was: Intel I/O Acc...] Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-05  9:18         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-06 19:56           ` Chris Leech
2006-03-03 22:58 ` [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) Kumar Gala
2006-03-03 23:32   ` Chris Leech
2006-03-04 18:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-04 21:41   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-05  1:43     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-03-05  2:08       ` David S. Miller
2006-03-06 17:44       ` Ingo Oeser
2006-03-07  7:44         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-03-07  9:43           ` Ingo Oeser
2006-03-07 10:16             ` Evgeniy Polyakov

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