Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH 00/21] ND: NFIT-Defined / NVDIMM Subsystem

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
<Elliott@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Linux-nvdimm [mailto:linux-nvdimm-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>> Dan Williams
>> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 8:35 PM
>> To: linux-nvdimm@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [Linux-nvdimm] [PATCH 00/21] ND: NFIT-Defined / NVDIMM Subsystem
>>
> ...
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/block/nd/acpi.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/block/nd/blk.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/block/nd/bus.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/block/nd/core.c
> ...
>
> The kernel already has lots of files with these names:
>  5 acpi.c
> 10 bus.c
> 66 core.c
>
> I often use ctags like this:
>         vim -t core.c
> but that doesn’t immediately work with common filenames - it
> presents a list of all 66 files to choose from.
>
> Also, blk.c is a name one might expect to see in the block/
> directory (e.g., next to blk.h).
>
> An nd_ prefix on all the filenames would help.
>

I picked up the "don't duplicate the directory name in the source file
name" approach from a review comment from Linus on a SCSI driver a
long time back (iirc).  I'm not motivated to stop that practice now.
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