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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>,
	hjanssen@microsoft.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Hyperv detection - code cleanup
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:21:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF42C3D.6030404@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100519181926.GA22228@kroah.com>

On 05/19/2010 11:19 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:50:54AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 05/19/2010 10:20 AM, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
>>> From: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
>>> Subject: Code cleanup - get rid of the "ms" prefix in hyperv related files.  
>>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
>>
>> NAK in the extreme.
>>
>> "hyperv" -- without the capitalization to make it stand out -- is way
>> too easy to read as just an abbreviation for "hypervisor".
> 
> Which is what I confused it with, and hence I wrote the ms_* changes in
> my patch.  But KY wanted it changed back so I suggested he write a
> patch.
> 
> I personally like the ms_ stuff, it makes it more obvious what is going
> on here, but that's just me.
> 

Well, I agree with you.  Sorry, Ky.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-19 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-19 17:20 [PATCH 2/2] Hyperv detection - code cleanup Ky Srinivasan
2010-05-19 17:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-19 18:19   ` Greg KH
2010-05-19 18:21     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-05-19 18:33       ` Ky Srinivasan

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