From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] async: Add some documentation.
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:52:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090119045242.73ba210f@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090119132744.0beee067@gondolin>
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:27:44 +0100
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I had it as that at first. But it is ugly; naming a function
> > > after its arguments is useless; it should be named after what it
> > > does instead.
> > >
> > > I buy that "special" is not a good name. Would "local" be better?
> > > The name needs to convey that it is for a specific synchronization
> > > context....
> >
> > Yeah, local is sounds ok - it's certainly more obvious
> > that it's a scope modifier for the synchronisation primitive.
>
> Hm, I don't like _local too much. How about _subset, or _context, or
> _scope?
or _domain ?
and phrase stuff such that you have synchronization domains?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-19 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-13 16:43 Cornelia Huck
2009-01-13 20:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-14 2:49 ` Dave Chinner
2009-01-14 10:24 ` Cornelia Huck
2009-01-19 0:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-19 4:40 ` Dave Chinner
2009-01-19 12:27 ` Cornelia Huck
2009-01-19 12:52 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2009-01-19 13:09 ` Cornelia Huck
2009-01-20 14:31 ` [PATCH] async: Rename _special -> _domain for clarity Cornelia Huck
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