[PATCH trivial] include: uapi: standard all files' macro prefix and suffix, excluding "linux/" sub-directory

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Mon Nov 4 17:03:44 EST 2013


Chen Gang <gang.chen at asianux.com> wrote:

> For "include/uapi/*", excluding "linux/" sub-directory, let all files'
> macro prefix match the standard format, and give related stand comments
> for their macro suffix.
> 
> The related standard format is:
> 
>   "_SUBDIRNAME_SUBDIRNAME[_SUBDIRNAME]_FILENAME" (1st _SUBDIRNAME is _UAPI), and use '_' instead of '.' and '-'.

I strongly recommend _against_ this without very careful consideration.
Userspace sometimes depends on the name in the guard macro:-/

David



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