Re: [PATCH] mips: namespace pollution: dump_regs() -> elf_dump_regs()

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Al Viro wrote:

> >  I guess drivers should be fixed not to use generic names in the first 
> > place -> s/dump_regs/frobnicator_dump_regs/, etc.
> 
> No.  If nothing else, it's far less work to keep the headers reasonably
> clean than to slap prefices on every damn static-in-file function

 That's the duty of the respective maintainers.  You don't expect one to 
have a private printk() (or whatever -- pick your favourite) function in a 
driver and demand the global one to be renamed so that their own one keeps 
working.

> out there.  Leads to more readable code in drivers, too...

 Well, that's just a reason to keep namespace prefixes short...

  Maciej
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