Re: [PATCH 2/3] netlink: the temp variable name max is ambiguous

On 9/17/07, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Denis Cheng <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun,  2 Sep 2007 03:45:58 +0800
>
> > with the macro max provided by <linux/kernel.h>, so changed its name to a more proper one: limit
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <[email protected]>
>
> Not strictly necessary because CPP knows to differentiate between
> 'max(' and plain 'max' when evaluating if a CPP macro should be
> expanded or not.
I also know the GNU CPP is intelligent, but people are often not.
I just think the avoidance to use human ambiguous names could give
more readability.

>
> Nonetheless, applied to net-2.6.24, thanks.
>

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Denis Cheng
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