[PATCH v2 1/4] Make place for common balloon code

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Aug 16 21:56:32 AEST 2022


On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 02:47:22PM +0300, Alexander Atanasov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 16.08.22 12:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 12:41:14PM +0300, Alexander Atanasov wrote:
> 
> > >   rename include/linux/{balloon_compaction.h => balloon_common.h} (99%)
> > 
> > Why rename the .h file?  It still handles the "balloon compaction"
> > logic.
> 
> File contains code that is common to balloon drivers,
> compaction is only part of it. Series add more code to it.
> Since it was suggested to use it for such common code.
> I find that common becomes a better name for it so the rename.
> I can drop the rename easy on next iteration if you suggest to.

"balloon_common.h" is very vague, you should only need one balloon.h
file in the include/linux/ directory, right, so of course it is "common"
:)

thanks,

greg "naming is hard" k-h


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