Re: [PATCH 02/17] mips: namespace pollution - mem_... -> __mem_... in io.h

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Feb 08 2006 - 11:12:40 EST


On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:01:52AM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Al Viro wrote:
>
> > A pile of internal functions use only inside mips io.h has names starting
> > with mem_... and clashing with names in drivers; renamed to __mem_....
>
> Then the corresponding ones with no "mem_" prefix (these for the PCI I/O
> port space) should be prefixed with "__" for consistency as well.

Huh???

Things like outb(), etc. *are* public; mem_... ones are not.
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