Re: underscores and function names

["Michael R. Hines" <mhines@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The ones with underscores usually have matching functions withOUT 
underscores. They are meant to be private calls.

The ones without underscores usually call the one with underscores, and 
these are the ones that actually do the work.

The kernel will sometimes call the underscore'd functions directly because 
it knows what it's doing.......

But while programming, we should generally call the ones without them.

At 02:06 PM 1/2/2005, brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Many functions in the kernel are prepended with an underscore, and some
> have two underscores.  Can somebody explain this convention?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
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