From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754159Ab3KUP2O (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:28:14 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:58453 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751609Ab3KUP2N (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:28:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:28:04 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Ingo Molnar , LKML , Borislav Petkov , Jiri Olsa , Peter Zijlstra , Robert Richter Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: Move fs.* to generic lib/lk/ Message-ID: <20131121152804.GI26009@pd.tnic> References: <1384984585-24300-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> <20131121073410.GA16971@gmail.com> <20131121100722.GA25459@pd.tnic> <20131121111744.GA27513@gmail.com> <20131121113014.GA26009@pd.tnic> <20131121114224.GA27704@gmail.com> <20131121120605.GC26009@pd.tnic> <20131121150524.GA24806@ghostprotocols.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131121150524.GA24806@ghostprotocols.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:05:24PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > "To offers various helper methods to interface with the Linux kernel: > debugfs, procfs, sysfs handling routines with no policy, just pure, > obvious helpers to use kernel functionality." Exactly. > Naming is a bit hard, to keep it small, descriptive, as API can lead > people to think about other kinds of kernel APIs (syscalls?), "fskapi" > to mean "fs based kernel API" would perhaps be more descriptive? A > longer (more descriptive) possibility would be "linux-fskapi". Yeah, you can't have fskapi because we'll add other stuff to it (see the diffstat I sent you last week) so not filesystem stuff only. So I think "kapi" is as generic and as fitting as it gets. We can use the "kernel-api" variant but I think the "k" is enough. :-) -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --