Re: [FOR REVIEW, PATCH 2/2] introduce "struct wait_opts" tosimplify do_wait() pathes

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Thu May 07 2009 - 02:50:07 EST


On 05/06, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> I like the idea just fine. Drop the "w" on every field name.
> If you want them to have a greppable uniqueness/prefix,

Yes!

> use "wo_".
> I'd go with a shorter name for the canonical pointer parameter,
> like "w" or "wo".

Done.

> It looks cleaner to me to keep the several args to do_wait() and have
> it use a single initializer with = { .foo = a, .bar = b } syntax there.

Yes, I considered this option too. But since (I hope) you do not have
a strong opinion on this, I'd prefer to keep the code as is. This way
do_wait() looks more symmetrical wrt to other helpers. And we don't
copy args twice.

Oleg.

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