Re: [PATCH 3/5] proc: Use ppos instead of m->version

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 12:29:23PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 10:55:29PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 08:59:08AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > -static void *m_next(struct seq_file *m, void *v, loff_t *pos)
> > > +static void *m_next(struct seq_file *m, void *v, loff_t *ppos)
> > 
> > This looks like hungarian notation.
> 
> It's the standard naming convention used throughout the VFS.  loff_t is
> pos, loff_t * is ppos.
> 
> $ git grep 'loff_t \*' fs/*.c |wc
>      77     556    5233
> $ git grep 'loff_t \*ppos' fs/*.c |wc
>      43     309    2974
> $ git grep 'loff_t \*pos' fs/*.c |wc
>      22     168    1524

Yes, people copy-pasted terrible thing for years!
Oh well, whatever...