On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:29, Jan Hudec wrote: > Actualy it's the other way around. _ functions are usualy purely > internal. __ functions are usualy "raw" variants. I don't know what you mean by "functions are usualy purely internal". By calling a function "internal", I mean it is not usually invoked directly but by some other face. That is, its use is internal to some other function. I suppose a synonym would be "helper" or "not intended for direct use". But, of course, in the kernel there are no such hard rules. Robert Love -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/