On 2016 Sep 15 (Thu) at 16:18:46 +0200 (+0200), Henning Brauer wrote:
:* Peter Hessler <[email protected]> [2016-09-15 14:48]:
:> On 2016 Sep 15 (Thu) at 13:28:10 +0200 (+0200), Martin Pieuchot wrote:
:> :By the way 'softc' is generally for device drivers, you might prefer
:> :something like bfdd (d for descriptor).
:> There's be a whole lot of bikeshedding about this topic, I would prefer
:> not to change it for now.
:
:errm, no. please fix.
:softc is clear to any developer who's spent time in kernel land, and
:this is abuse. misleading as f***.
Based on the above, and a few private comments, I will change the name
away from bfd_softc.
bfdd is fine with me, and I'm planning on using bd_ as its variable
prefix.
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