Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/1] rcu: Variable name changed in tree_plugin.h and used in tree.c

[Josh Triplett]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 05:30:59PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Uma Sharma <uma.sharma523@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The variable and struct both having the name "rcu_state" confuses
> sparse in some situations, so this commit changes the variable to
> "rcu_state_p" in order to avoid this confusion.  This also makes
> things easier for human readers.

Human readers aside, how does Sparse get confused?  Let's fix that.

Personally, I don't think the _p makes things particularly easier for
human readers, but it doesn't make things *harder* for anyone other than
those used to reading the existing code, so, *shrug*.

- Josh Triplett
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