From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kees Cook Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:15:39 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/29] powerpc: Rename "notes" PT_NOTE to "note" Message-Id: <201910291414.F29F738B7@keescook> 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> <20191015165412.GD596@zn.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20191015165412.GD596@zn.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Segher Boessenkool , 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 Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 06:54:13PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > 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 I've added more rationale to patch #1 in the just-sent v3 of this series. If I still can't convince you Segher, I'm happy to send "patch 30/29" to do a bulk rename to "notes". Let me know. :) -- Kees Cook