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

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue May 09 2006 - 11:06:45 EST


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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