From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 18 09:41:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA11775 for current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:41:41 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA11766 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:41:38 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA05486; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 12:41:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 12:41:18 -0400 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9510181641.AA05486@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Bruce Evans Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Errors building some LKMs in -current In-Reply-To: <199510181553.BAA03462@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199510181553.BAA03462@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < said: > They just have inconsistently named entry points. Most use the name > `foo_init', which seems better than foo_mod, but atapi and wcd use > simply `atapi' and `wcd'. I chose `foo_mod' because it was unlikely to conflict with anything that already existed in the code. `foo_init' is simply the wrong name, because these are /not/ ``initialization'' functions; they are initialization-status-teardown functions. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant