Re: [PATCH v2 01/28] lib/printbuf: New data structure for printing strings

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2022-05-26 at 11:21 -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 05:06:15PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > The "pr_" prefix is a nightmare for me because the same prefix
> > is used also for printk() API ;-)
> > 
> > Could we please use "pb_" instead?
> 
> I'm not entirely against that, but I see printbufs as already in this patchset
> tightly coupled to vsprintf.c and thus quite related to printk, as well - and
> there aren't that many different pr_ things. So I think the shared prefix makes
> some sense, I'd like to hear what others think before making that change.

I think the reused prefix is not good.
bufs are not printks.