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

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at redhat.com
Tue Aug 16 22:00:10 AEST 2022


On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 01:56:32PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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

Yea, just call it balloon.h and balloon.c then.

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MST



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