Re: [PATCH 1/2] PTRACE_PEEKDATA consolidation

From: Joe Korty
Date: Mon Jun 11 2007 - 17:48:19 EST


On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 12:52:25AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:35:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 12:40:06AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > Identical implementations of PTRACE_PEEKDATA go into
> > > simple_ptrace_peekdata() function.
> > >
> > > compile-tested on ~half of archs, playing with gdb on x86_64.
> >
> > Looks good. Why don't you call it generic_ptrace_peekdata instead of
> > simple_ptrace_peekdata, though?
>
> Because they're simple :) I was probably spoiled by libfs.c .

The problem with names like 'simple_*' is that, as the years go by,
simple code grows to become complex code, and then the prefix 'simple'
doesn't apply anymore.

Regards,
Joe
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