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From: pebolle@tiscali.nl (Paul Bolle)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: if anyone wants to play with my kernel cleanup scripts ...
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:13:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1411042430.2017.51.camel@x220> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1409180752100.17722@localhost>

On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 07:57 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > I try to holler when a new one of these enters linux-next. Very few
> > people seems to share this pet peeve.
> 
>   i'm pretty sure i had this conversation once upon a time, possibly
> on LKML, and the pretty firm consensus is that "CONFIG_" should be
> reserved for Kconfig variables, but i don't have a link to it.

That "pretty firm consensus" makes sense to me. But please post that
link, in this thread, if you ever stumble on it.

(Side note: I do think the CONFIG_ prefix is too generic.

And I think it would have been easier if the Kconfig symbols themselves
would have kept that prefix. They used to have it in 2.4 and earlier, I
seem to remember. I don't know why that was changed.

But there's little we can do about these two things now , anyhow.)


Paul Bolle

      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-18 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-18 10:57 if anyone wants to play with my kernel cleanup scripts Robert P. J. Day
2014-09-18 11:13 ` Paul Bolle
2014-09-18 11:57   ` Robert P. J. Day
2014-09-18 12:13     ` Paul Bolle [this message]

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