From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: arch-specific files
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:23:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87acjrqm61.fsf@student.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508090836.30891.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:36:30 +0200")
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org> writes:
> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 05:37, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>> Since "of" is a very common English word, it is not a good file or
>> variable name. We have standardized on the full "ieee1275" for both, so
>> I have renamed this file.
>
> OK. That makes sense. Just a question: why do we still use "of" in some places
> then? Like ofconsole.c. Why isn't it just console.c?
It can be renamed if you think it is important.. I have chosen this
name in case another type of console is required for powerpc/ieee1275.
For example on the old world mac there is no console support in open
firmware AFAIK. But the old world port related things do belong in
powerpc/ieee1275.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-09 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-06 15:04 arch-specific files Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-08-07 14:15 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-08-09 3:37 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-08-09 6:36 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-08-09 13:23 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2005-08-09 14:05 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-08-09 14:22 ` Marco Gerards
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