Names like brelse, bread, namei and so on have a long history in Unix kernels and file systems. That history forms people's expectations. If you provide a namei

Names like brelse, bread, namei and so on have a long history in Unix kernels and file systems. That history forms people's expectations. If you provide a namei operation in your code, you better call it namei and not make up some other, ostensibly more clear, identifier for it.