From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 12/40] metag: Build infrastructure
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 18:01:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121102170127.GA6577@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50939518.5030302@imgtec.com>
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 09:40:40AM +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 31/10/12 19:35, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > 3) there seems to be confusion if the shorthand is meta or metag.
> > Please fix it up so metag is used everywhere.
>
> The processor cores are called Meta, which should probably be used in
> kconfig labels and some text. We then use metag as the "shorthand" name
> of the architecture in code, which also makes it a bit less ambiguous. I
> tend to rationalise it as being derived from Metagence.
Thanks for looking into this!
In general people will recognize it if you use the same shorthand as
the arch dir. So if you decide for arch/metag then for example
all Kconfig symbols should use the METAG_ prefix.
Also if theyare dealing with the core.
This will confuse the naive reader less.
Sam
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Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-31 16:13 [RFC PATCH v1 00/40] Meta Linux Kernel Port James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 01/40] asm-generic/io.h: remove asm/cacheflush.h include James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 02/40] asm-generic/unistd.h: handle symbol prefixes in cond_syscall James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 03/40] Add CONFIG_HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_STRUCT for taskstats James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 04/40] trace/ring_buffer: handle 64bit aligned structs James Hogan
2012-10-31 17:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-10-31 18:19 ` James Hogan
2012-11-01 17:32 ` Will Newton
2012-11-01 19:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 05/40] Revert some of "binfmt_elf: cleanups" James Hogan
2012-11-01 13:25 ` Mikael Pettersson
2012-11-01 13:25 ` Mikael Pettersson
2012-11-01 13:52 ` James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 06/40] of/vendor-prefixes: add Imagination Technologies James Hogan
2012-11-01 1:38 ` Rob Herring
2012-11-01 9:20 ` James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 07/40] metag: Add MAINTAINERS entry James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 08/40] metag: Boot James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 11/40] metag: Signal handling James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 12/40] metag: Build infrastructure James Hogan
2012-10-31 19:35 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-10-31 21:34 ` James Hogan
2012-11-02 9:40 ` James Hogan
2012-11-02 17:01 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2012-11-09 14:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-09 14:55 ` James Hogan
2012-11-20 15:06 ` James Hogan
2012-11-20 15:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-20 16:01 ` James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 13/40] metag: Device tree James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 14/40] metag: Ptrace James Hogan
2012-11-08 7:17 ` Jonas Bonn
2012-11-09 9:26 ` James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 15/40] metag: Time keeping James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 16/40] metag: Traps James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 17/40] metag: IRQ handling James Hogan
2012-11-09 14:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-20 16:08 ` James Hogan
2012-11-20 16:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-18 13:25 ` James Hogan
2012-12-19 15:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-12-20 10:14 ` James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:13 ` [RFC PATCH v1 18/40] metag: System Calls James Hogan
2012-11-09 14:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-22 12:01 ` James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 19/40] metag: Scheduling/Process management James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 20/40] metag: Module support James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 21/40] metag: Atomics, locks and bitops James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 22/40] metag: Basic documentation James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 23/40] metag: SMP support James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 24/40] metag: DMA James Hogan
2012-11-09 14:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-23 15:53 ` James Hogan
2012-11-23 16:20 ` James Hogan
2012-11-23 16:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-09 16:04 ` James Hogan
2013-01-09 16:04 ` James Hogan
2013-01-09 16:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-23 16:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 25/40] metag: optimised library functions James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 26/40] metag: Stack unwinding James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 27/40] metag: various other headers James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 28/40] metag: Perf James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 29/40] metag: ftrace support James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 30/40] scripts/checkstack.pl: Add metag support James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 31/40] char: don't build rtc or genrtc on METAG James Hogan
2012-11-01 15:39 ` Greg KH
2012-11-01 17:33 ` James Hogan
2012-11-09 14:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 32/40] i8042: don't build " James Hogan
2012-11-09 14:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-16 11:06 ` James Hogan
2012-11-16 15:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-16 16:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-11-16 16:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-16 16:50 ` James Hogan
2012-11-16 17:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 33/40] parport: " James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 34/40] musb: don't redefine {read,write}s{l,w,b} on metag James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 35/40] vga console: don't build on METAG James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 36/40] metag: OProfile James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 37/40] metag: Various sysfs drivers James Hogan
2012-10-31 19:30 ` Greg KH
2012-10-31 19:41 ` James Hogan
2012-11-09 14:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-09 14:35 ` James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 38/40] metag: add JTAG Debug Adapter (DA) support James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 39/40] tty/metag_da: add metag DA TTY driver James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:14 ` [RFC PATCH v1 40/40] fs: dafs: Add DAFS filesystem for metag James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:42 ` Al Viro
2012-10-31 19:39 ` James Hogan
2012-10-31 19:39 ` James Hogan
2012-10-31 19:55 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-10-31 19:55 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-10-31 21:39 ` James Hogan
2012-10-31 21:39 ` James Hogan
2012-11-02 9:33 ` James Hogan
2012-11-02 9:33 ` James Hogan
2012-10-31 16:26 ` [RFC PATCH v1 00/40] Meta Linux Kernel Port James Hogan
2012-11-09 15:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-09 15:21 ` James Hogan
2012-11-09 15:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-09 16:20 ` James Hogan
2012-11-09 21:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-09 23:28 ` James Hogan
2012-11-12 16:59 ` James Hogan
2012-11-12 19:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-13 9:43 ` James Hogan
2012-11-13 9:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-10-31 22:33 ` Tony Breeds
2012-11-01 11:42 ` James Hogan
2012-11-01 23:28 ` Tony Breeds
2012-11-09 16:52 ` James Hogan
2012-11-09 15:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-09 16:06 ` James Hogan
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