Hello, Eric.

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 08:39:27PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> @ns is more significant so it should come first.
> 
> Where do we have the backwards convention of putting @name first?

Because @ns is optional and you end up with stupid stuff like

        sysfs_xxx_ns(@param, @ns, @name)
        sysfs_xxx(@param, @name)

You put optional params after the mandatory ones.  It may be difficult
to accept for you but @ns is a *clearly* optional thing for sysfs.

-- 
tejun
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