Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] iio: light: Add gain-time-scale helpers

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Mar 06 2023 - 06:16:16 EST


On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 09:42:22PM +0200, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> On 3/4/23 20:35, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 12:57:54 +0200

...

> > I've been meaning to finish namespacing the rest of IIO but not
> > gotten around to it yet.
> > As this is a separate library probably makes sense to have a unique
> > namespace for it that the users opt in on.
> > Perhaps IIO_GTS makes sense?
>
> Thanks. I think I'll use that. Although, as all of the symbols are prefixed
> with iio_gts - if I really saw a risk of symbol clash it would probably make
> more sense to use just about anything else ;) This because if someone else
> were prefixing symbols with iio_gts - he would likely be using the exactly
> same namespace.

There is another aspect, i.e. global namespace pollution. This saves memory
if not used.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko