From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:11:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from omx1-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.179.11]:65190 "EHLO omx1.americas.sgi.com") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133710AbWAZTKh (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:10:37 +0000 Received: from imr2.americas.sgi.com (imr2.americas.sgi.com [198.149.16.18]) by omx1.americas.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9/linux-outbound_gateway-1.1) with ESMTP id k0QJEOOX008860; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:14:24 -0600 Received: from v0 (mtv-vpn-hw-masa-1.corp.sgi.com [134.15.25.210]) by imr2.americas.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.10/SGI_generic_relay-1.2) with SMTP id k0QJUgAP10766216; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:30:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:14:19 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Pavel Machek Cc: mita@miraclelinux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rth@twiddle.net, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, spyro@f2s.com, dev-etrax@axis.com, dhowells@redhat.com, ysato@users.sourceforge.jp, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, takata@linux-m32r.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, gerg@uclinux.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux390@de.ibm.com, linuxsh-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, linuxsh-shmedia-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp, ak@suse.de, chris@zankel.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] {set,clear,test}_bit() related cleanup Message-Id: <20060126111419.54b1cc56.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20060126161426.GA1709@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060125112625.GA18584@miraclelinux.com> <20060125112857.GB18584@miraclelinux.com> <20060126161426.GA1709@elf.ucw.cz> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.7 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 10194 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: pj@sgi.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Pavel wrote: > cpu_set sounds *very* ambiguous. We have thing called cpusets, Hmmm ... you're right. I've worked for quite some time on both of these, and hadn't noticed this similarity before. Oh well. Such is the nature of naming things. Sometimes nice names resemble other nice names in unexpected ways. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401