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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce new shared function remote_fileio_to_fio_error
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55265BCC.2080209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150409105026.GA16881@blade.nx>

On 04/09/2015 11:50 AM, Gary Benson wrote:
> Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On 04/09/2015 10:51 AM, Gary Benson wrote:
>>> This commit introduces a new shared function to replace three
>>> identical functions in various places in the codebase.
>>>
>>> Ok to commit?
>>
>> This is OK, but I think the "remote" in the name is really wrong.
>> This is converting a _host_ errno to a fileio error.  I think the
>> function name should reflect that, and not mention remote at all.
> 
> Yeah, I kind of thought this when I was writing the patch, but I was
> also thinking about other things :)
> 
> I'm happy to make another patch to rename common-remote-fileio.*
> to common-fileio.* and rename the functions accordingly.

I'd prefer even dropping the "common" from the file name.
host-fileio.* for example would indicate what the file actually does.

> 
> Should I push this one first and then make a second, or would you
> like the rename first and an updated version of this patch second?
> I'd prefer the former (less work for me!) but I can do the latter
> if you want it that way.

Yeah, push what you have first.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-09 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-09  9:51 Gary Benson
2015-04-09 10:17 ` Pedro Alves
2015-04-09 10:50   ` Gary Benson
2015-04-09 11:00     ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2015-04-09 13:21       ` Gary Benson
2015-04-09 14:12         ` [PATCH] Rename common-remote-fileio.[ch] as fileio.[ch] Gary Benson
2015-04-09 14:18           ` Gary Benson
2015-04-09 14:23             ` Pedro Alves
2015-04-09 16:04               ` Gary Benson

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