On 12/12/2017 06:41 AM, QingFeng Hao wrote: >> Reflecting on this further, I wonder about changing the name of that >> argument in the man page from "buffer" to (say) "resp_buffer". The >> problem is that the term "buffer" (which I realize is what is used in >> the kernel source code) is very generic. A more descriptive name in >> the man page would be helpful I think. (I even think it would be more >> helpful in the source code, but that's another story.) What do you >> think? > I agree to use resp_buffer to reflect that it's for the response. Thanks! Thanks. I've made than change. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html