Re: [RFC][PATCHv4 2/6] printk: rename nmi.c and exported api

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Thu Dec 01 2016 - 07:13:03 EST


On Thu 2016-12-01 10:07:01, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (11/24/16 17:35), Petr Mladek wrote:
> [..]
> > > #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK_NMI
> > > -extern void printk_nmi_init(void);
> > > -extern void printk_nmi_enter(void);
> > > -extern void printk_nmi_exit(void);
> > > -extern void printk_nmi_flush(void);
> > > -extern void printk_nmi_flush_on_panic(void);
> > > +extern void printk_safe_init(void);
> > > +extern void printk_safe_nmi_enter(void);
> > > +extern void printk_safe_nmi_exit(void);
> >
> > I would personally keep the short names pritnk_nmi_enter() and
> > printk_nmi_exit(). These are the only functions that will stay
> > in this CONFIG_PRINT_NMI section. The others are generic and
> > will be moved to the generic section in the next patch.
>
> I'd probably prefer all printk_safe functions to be printk_safe
> prefixed, just to show the fact that those are printk_safe
> functions (IOW, indirect output to a per-CPU buffer and flush
> it to logbuf later).

Fair enough.

Best regards,
Petr