From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759821AbYDBA3N (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:29:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757132AbYDBA26 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:28:58 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:14277 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757016AbYDBA25 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:28:57 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mH27AVda3mwpUXwMblvRhUcmUT6POdq57SjnVEcbEqTzJFLp8P7yYbbHtgRzpkbueJvERgrhhp4s+Xo3zBRa+5NYp2ahOsY6x/+OB7aKyesvvV7y5WK+kNWcAvnoylKyyR0ZVsZaXhf7+aJis2G7fDftjaW+qnGwGWBNxUT7IfQ= Message-ID: <47F2D343.3060009@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:28:51 +0400 From: Dmitri Vorobiev Organization: DmVo Home User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14pre (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Weiner CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel thread names that might offend users. References: <87r6dps3db.fsf@saeurebad.de> In-Reply-To: <87r6dps3db.fsf@saeurebad.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Johannes Weiner wrote: > More and more GNOME users (especially Ubuntu) get confused by their > process list showing several process names that seem to indicate > KDE-related services. > > To settle things down a bit on the bugtrackers, this patch renames all > offending kernel threads into something that goes better with > GNOME-based systems. > > Since KDE is essentially dead, the thread-names are not made > compile-time configurable but rather just renamed completely here to > fit modern distributions. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner > --- > > Please note that these hard-coded names are going to be removed soon > completely in another patch series that makes kernel thread names more > `themable' in the sense that users may supply a format string in > /proc/sys/kernel/kthread_fmt which allows having customizable names > like "-=[acpid]=-" or similar. > > Also, please let me know if I forgot something. Did you forget to send this patch yesterday in which case this would have been more suitable for April 1st? Dmitri