Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove 'e' from kprope structure members

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On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 15:00 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > Some kprobe structure members had a superfluous e in their
> > name.
> >
> > eflags -> flags
> > esp -> sp
> >   
> 
> eflags and esp are the actual machine register names (at least in
> 32-bit), and therefore more distinctive than just "flags". 
> 
> If this is in preparation for a unification then OK, but I disagree if
> not (and technically 64-bit should be using rsp/rflags).
> 
>     J

My plan was to move forward with unifying these files.  If this is still
acceptable I will add a comment block documenting this.  This doesn't
affect anywhere outside of kprobes.h kprobes_32/64.c so if it is clean
to unify them, I'll leave them as sp with comment.

Harvey

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