Introducing non-persistent property group fastreboot_disable_np [PSARC/2009/338 FastTrack timeout 06/10/2009]
James Carlson
james.d.carlson at sun.com
Thu Jun 4 10:41:47 PDT 2009
Scott Rotondo writes:
> James Carlson wrote:
> > Scott Rotondo writes:
> >> Assuming that identifier length isn't a significant constraint, you
> >> could spell out "transient" instead of using "np." But I think Jim's
> >> suggestion above, which doesn't require any suffix, is a more natural
> >> way to express this idea.
> >
> > The two are actually separate issues. I should have made that
> > clearer.
> >
> > If there's a convenience function, then it'll still need a name and
> > (as a tiny nit only) I think avoiding "_np" might be a good idea.
>
> Thanks for clarifying that. I thought fastreboot_disable_np was the
> proposed name for the property group.
It is, but (a) I care much less about _np outside of the library
function interface context and (b) the name of the property group
doesn't matter until the semantics are nailed down. ;-}
The _np nit was on the scf_fastreboot_disable_np() convenience function.
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