From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linda Knippers Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:35:02 -0400 Message-ID: <55DF2E26.30701@hp.com> References: <1440606024-29873-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> <1440606024-29873-3-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> <1440623522.14237.57.camel@hp.com> <1440625466.14237.62.camel@hp.com> <55DF21FC.8020106@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from g1t5424.austin.hp.com ([15.216.225.54]:41623 "EHLO g1t5424.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751831AbbH0PfG (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:35:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Dan Williams Cc: Toshi Kani , Rafael J Wysocki , Robert Moore , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , Linux ACPI , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" On 8/27/2015 11:30 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Linda Knippers wrote: >> I don't see why we can't fix the names so they make sense now before there >> is hardware in the market. People doing testing and debugging look at stuff >> in /sys and they write their own scripts too, not necessarily in python. > > The practical concern at this point is that it is too late in the 4.2 > development cycle, in my opinion, to push for a cosmetic change like > this. We also have versions of libndctl starting to leak into > distributions. Changing this in 4.3 means breaking the ABI from 4.2 > and managing both ways in future versions of the library as well as > getting all distributions to update. Not insurmountable, but also > something I don't want to take on just for a few characters in a sysfs > file. I think this is better fixed with documentation which I still > owe to the the Documentation/ABI/ directory. Is there any distribution that is going to enable this with 4.2? I know we're using it for testing now but there is still quite a bit of work queued up for 4.3 and more still left to be done. -- ljk