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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	y2038 Mailman List <y2038@lists.linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] vfs: Add current_time() api
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:33:14 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609142232240.5511@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABeXuvryJOB-7qr6PG7CC33yW+xh4ADv8=HwXQMZg1eT3ceE4A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Deepa Dinamani wrote:

> >> + * current_time - Return FS time
> >> + * @inode: inode.
> >> + *
> >> + * Return the current time truncated to the time granularity supported by
> >> + * the fs.
> >> + *
> >> + * Note that inode and inode->sb cannot be NULL.
> >> + * Otherwise, the function warns and returns time without truncation.
> >> + */
> >> +struct timespec current_time(struct inode *inode)
> >
> > Just a nitpick. Can we please rename that to fs_current_time() or something
> > similar which tells right away that this is a FS specific
> > function. current_time() is pretty generic and used in many places as
> > variable/argument name.
> 
> I proposed this as one of the names before:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/14/613 .
> But, decided against it because of the inode argument.
> If this is preferred, I will change the patches.
> 
> There are only about 30 (20, outside of staging) current_time
> references outside of Documentation/

It just occured to me and I can live with current_time() as well. Up to Al.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-14 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-14 14:48 [PATCH v5 0/5] Introduce " Deepa Dinamani
2016-09-14 14:48 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] vfs: Add " Deepa Dinamani
2016-09-14 18:52   ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-09-14 20:29     ` Deepa Dinamani
2016-09-14 20:33       ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2016-09-14 14:48 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode() Deepa Dinamani
2016-09-14 14:48 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps Deepa Dinamani
2016-09-14 14:48 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC " Deepa Dinamani
2016-09-14 14:48 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time() Deepa Dinamani
2016-09-14 16:45 ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Introduce current_time() api Linus Torvalds
2016-09-27 22:46   ` Al Viro

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