From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:54:13 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/29] powerpc: Rename "notes" PT_NOTE to "note" Message-Id: <20191015165412.GD596@zn.tnic> List-Id: References: <20191011000609.29728-1-keescook@chromium.org> <20191011000609.29728-2-keescook@chromium.org> <20191011082519.GI9749@gate.crashing.org> <201910110910.48270FC97@keescook> <20191011162552.GK9749@gate.crashing.org> In-Reply-To: <20191011162552.GK9749@gate.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Segher Boessenkool Cc: Kees Cook , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Michal Simek , x86@kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, Dave Hansen , Heiko Carstens , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Yoshinori Sato , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rick Edgecombe , Will Deacon , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:25:52AM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > Names *matter*, internal names doubly so. So why replace a good name with > a worse name? Because it is slightly less work for you? So if we agree on the name "notes" and we decide to rename the other arches, this should all be done in a separate patchset anyway, and ontop of this one. And I believe Kees wouldn't mind doing it ontop since he's gotten his hands dirty already. :-P Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette