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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Netdev list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDS is not Radio Data System
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 06:19:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180805101945.GA4056@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180805065920.GA8968@amd>

On (08/05/18 08:59), Pavel Machek wrote:
> Getting prompt "The RDS Protocol" (RDS) is not too helpful, and it is
> easily confused with Radio Data System (which we may want to support
> in kernel, too).
> 
> I wonder if option should be named NET_RDS, instead?

RDS has been around for a while now (since 2.6). How will you
rename proposal manage backward compatibility? Why can't you call
your new option CONFIG_RADIO  or similar instead?

Are we going to rename NFS* to NET_NFS* because someone decided
to reuse the NFS acronym? 

> And this sounds like a good idea:
> -	tristate "The RDS Protocol"
> +	tristate "The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) Protocol"

surn that sounds fine.

--Sowmini


  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-05 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-05  6:59 [PATCH] RDS is not Radio Data System Pavel Machek
2018-08-05 10:19 ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2018-08-05 10:37   ` Pavel Machek
2018-08-05 11:24     ` Sowmini Varadhan
2018-08-06  3:41 ` santosh.shilimkar

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