Re: New kernel/resource.c

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sat, 17 Jul 1999 02:04:54 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Simon Kenyon wrote:
>
> why not name the structures with a generic name
> and give the instance a use specific name

You haven't looked at the code, have you?

The structures are named "struct resource". Which is just about as generic
as it gets.

The instances are currently named "pci_io_resource" and
"pci_mem_resource", but my tree has them as "ioport_resource" and
"iomem_resource" respectively.

Linus

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