Re: [PATCH 05/44 take 2] [UBI] internal common header

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:05:53PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > Having this kind of global information directly exposed is a very
> > bad idea.  In general you only want to access it through more
> > specific information and avoid allocating the global array at all.
> 
> I do not see what is the problem with this. Please, refine.

global variables are very bad for code maintainability and understanadbility.
So we usually try to avoid them if possible and make them static to a
single file and provide proper accessors for allowed actions on them.
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