Re: [PATCH for-next 5/5] RDMA/efa: Align private func names to a single convention

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On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 09:43:20PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 07:57:17PM +0300, Margolin, Michael wrote:
> > 
> > On 6/26/2024 6:38 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 04:09:18PM +0000, Michael Margolin wrote:
> > > > Name functions that aren't exposed outside of a file with '_' prefix and
> > > > make sure that all verbs ops' implementations are named according to the
> > > > op name with an additional 'efa_' prefix.
> > > That isn't the kernel convention, please don't use _ like this
> > > 
> > > Jason
> > 
> > AFAIK there is no single kernel convention for static functions naming and
> > it also seems that the underscore prefix isn't rare in the subsystem.
> 
> Underscore at the beginning of the function name is a common practice
> to mark that function as locked variant.

Yeah, it is not typical to mark static functions at all.

You might exclude the symbol prefix (like efa_) but even that is not
universal.

Jason




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