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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 00/35] Xen i386 paravirtualization support

To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 00/35] Xen i386 paravirtualization support
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 16:07:01 +0100
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On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:49:37AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Congrats on getting this thrashed out. A few comments, most of which are
> boring style nits, but nonetheless ... will try to take a proper look
> later.
> 
> General comment:
> 
> Why is this style used:
> 
> HYPERVISOR_foo_bar ?
> 
> ie the capitalization of HYPERVISOR. Doesn't seem to fit with the rest
> of the kernel style.

It's also wrong.  There's more than one hypervisor and Xen shouldn't just
grab this namespace.  make it xen_ or xenhv_.


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