On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, David Mosberger-Tang wrote: > I have to agree with Hans and I'd much prefer making the mode part of > the operation's > name and not a parameter. Besides being The Right Thing, it saves a > lot of typing. IMHO It reduces the flexibility of the scheme and makes it not extendable. Leads to a large quantity of macros that are difficult to manage. Also some higher level functions may want to have the mode passed to them as parameters. See f.e. include/linux/buffer_head.h. Without the parameters you will have to maintain farms of definitions for all cases. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Mar 31 11:50:06 2006
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