Re: [PATCH] Shorten constant names for EFI variable attributes

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:28:32AM -0600, Khalid Aziz wrote:

> I also do not believe that kernel must use the constant names
> mentioned in the specification especially when the name reaches 50
> characters. We can not get away from having to create aliases. Do
> you think having aliases in efi.h can cause mixed use of long names
> and short names in future code in the kernel? Can we address this by
> suggesting to future code authors that they should use the short
> names in their code? Should we consider inclusion of this patch in
> the kernel?

I'd be surprised if it were a problem - we should catch any of those 
cases in code review, or gate the aliases under #ifndef __KERNEL__

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