On Friday 2020-06-19 09:46, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:06:45AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >> Rename >> struct notifier_block *this >> to >> struct notifier_block *nb >> >> "nb" is arguably a better name for notifier block. > >But not enough better to cause tons of pointless churn. Feel free >to use better naming in new code you write or do significant changes >to, but stop these pointless renames. Well, judging from the mention of "linux++" in the subject, I figure this is the old discussion of someone trying to make Linux code, or parts thereof, work in a C++ environment. Since the patch does not just touch headers but .c files, I deduce that there seems to be a project trying to build Linux, or a subset thereof, as a C++ program for the fun of it. UML could come to mind. Is it a hot potato? Definitely. But so was IPv6 NAT, and now we have it anyway.
