Re: what does a number of "_" mean?

[Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 16:49:20 -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:29, Jan Hudec wrote:
> 
> > Actualy it's the other way around. _ functions are usualy purely
> > internal. __ functions are usualy "raw" variants.
> 
> I don't know what you mean by "functions are usualy purely internal".
> 
> By calling a function "internal", I mean it is not usually invoked
> directly but by some other face.  That is, its use is internal to some
> other function.  I suppose a synonym would be "helper" or "not intended
> for direct use".  But, of course, in the kernel there are no such hard
> rules. 

So do I.

By calling a function purely internal I mean it is never (not just not
usualy) called directly. It should have been static, but for some reason
it can't.

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