Re: [PATCH v2] lib: Make strreplace prototype compatible with C++

[Joe Perches]

(Matt, you've got an unusual reply-to header)

On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 15:38 -0400, Matt Ullman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:38:13AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > I didn't see and could not find any reply to v1.  Who is that comment
> > addressed to?  Linus?
> Yes, this was addressed to Linus. He CC'd the mailing list, but I could not
> find it either. Here is what he wrote:
> > 
> > Please only change the prototype, not the function. Might as well remove
> > the argument names in the prototype.
> > 
> > Let's not make the C code uglier for no reason. The fact that C++ screwed
> > up and thought that "new" can't be used as a variable name is no reason not
> > to do it in C code.
> > 
> > Similarly, we don't make C code use the insane C++ pointer caring rules.
> > 
> >    Linus
> -- Matt Ullman

I think kernel-doc is useful and maybe from/to or find/replace
could be used instead of old/new