From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
cort@fsmlabs.com
Subject: Re: CML1 cleanup patch, take 2
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:52:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ABF9DE7.48458988@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200103260955.f2Q9tfo14568@snark.thyrsus.com> <3ABF574D.65CBD22@mandrakesoft.com> <20010326081157.H16672@opus.bloom.county>
Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:50:53AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > PPC guys: this is a gratuitous renaming change that is not required.
> > If you have been following the "CML1 cleanup patch" thread, you see that
> > Eric is blindly dictating policy when he says that CONFIG_[0-9] needs to
> > be cleaned up.
> The counter point to this is what does "CONFIG_6xx" or 8xx mean? It's as bad
> as CONFIG_Mxxx imho :)
No argument.. :) I definitely encourage namespace cleanup in 2.5 -- but
please don't change an identifier just because it begins with a numeric
prefix... Change it because it needs to be changed.
Best regards,
Jeff
--
Jeff Garzik | May you have warm words on a cold evening,
Building 1024 | a full moon on a dark night,
MandrakeSoft | and a smooth road all the way to your door.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-26 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-26 9:55 CML1 cleanup patch, take 2 Eric S. Raymond
2001-03-26 11:39 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-03-26 13:06 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-03-26 14:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-26 15:11 ` Tom Rini
2001-03-26 19:52 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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