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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Christian Ehrhardt
	<ehrhardt-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org,
	Hollis Blanchard
	<hollisb-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Renaming kvm_arch in view of upcoming	architecture ports
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:01:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C2EB12.9000906@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C2E84C.3030101-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>

Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> in view of the upcoming architecture ports, this is a little cleanup 
> patch that renames the current "_arch" to "_x86"
> e.g. kvm_arch_ops -> kvm_x86_ops
>
> I discussed with some people about names like kvm_x86_arch_ops or 
> kvm_subarch_ops, ... but at the end we thought that "arch" has a 
> special meaning in linux and so it should be freed for the real 
> architecture ports of kvm that show up slowly on the horizon (look at 
> Tucson).
> I want to invite everyone to comment about what may be a more 
> appropriate name in order to find out what naming scheme the community 
> wants.
>
> I attached the patch to keep the usual form, but actually it is just 
> what comes out executing the following:
>  perl -p -i -e "s/_arch/_x86/g" drivers/kvm/*
>

Seems a sensible name.  I thought of subarch at first, but x86 is more 
explicit.

I'll apply this after the lapic merge.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-15 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-15 11:49 [patch] Renaming kvm_arch in view of upcoming architecture ports Christian Ehrhardt
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2007-08-15 12:01   ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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