[RFC,2/8] powerpc/slb: Rename all the 'entry' occurrences to 'slot'

Anshuman Khandual khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jul 21 21:23:03 AEST 2015


On 07/21/2015 03:16 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-21-07 at 06:58:40 UTC, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> > From: "khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com" <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> > 
>> > These are essentially SLB individual slots what we are dealing with
>> > in these functions. Usage of both 'entry' and 'slot' synonyms makes
>> > it real confusing sometimes. This patch makes it uniform across the
>> > file by replacing all those 'entry's with 'slot's.
> No I think it would be better the other way around.
> 
> Currently we use entry in 14 places and slot in 3.
> 
> Both can be correct in some places, but not always.
> 
> For example:
> 
>> > -	 * Clear the ESID first so the entry is not valid while we are
>> > +	 * Clear the ESID first so the slot is not valid while we are
> That doesn't make sense with "slot", a slot is not valid, only an entry in a
> slot is valid.
> 
> Looking at the existing uses of slot they will all make sense if you change
> them to entry.

Sure, yeah will do the other way around.



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