From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/kms: remove spaces from connector names Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:46:23 -0800 Message-ID: <20101209094623.1f46b4cb@jbarnes-desktop> References: <1291850043-7742-1-git-send-email-alexdeucher@gmail.com> <20101208233026.GA10898@kroah.com> <20101209091814.2fea27a7@jbarnes-desktop> <87aakec0m9.wl%sergej.pupykin@dsr-company.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87aakec0m9.wl%sergej.pupykin@dsr-company.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Errors-To: stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org To: Sergej Pupykin Cc: Alex Deucher , Greg KH , stable@kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:33:18 +0300 Sergej Pupykin wrote: > At Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:18:14 -0800, > Jesse Barnes wrote: > > > > On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:30:26 -0800 > > Greg KH wrote: > > > What kernel version did these options first show up in? Does any > > > other tools rely on the spaces? > > > > And it's ugly; can't we fix grub instead? > > I think renaming connectors is good idea anyway. It should be typed > before system boot, so names should be short and easy kept in mind. > > Such as TV, DIN, VGA, DVI, etc... I prefer to keep the user visible names as they are, they're descriptive and easy to read with spaces. An alternative to fixing grub would be to add aliases like you mention, and/or change the parser to accept "_" as an alias for " ". Then we could leave the sysfs values and string table alone. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center