From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] Consolidation of Open Firmware routines
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 12:36:01 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070501.123601.115907128.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0705011311470.18504@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 13:17:42 +0200 (MEST)
>
> On May 1 2007 01:51, David Miller wrote:
> >From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
> >Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 10:30:02 +0200 (MEST)
> >
> >> but i'd kinda want drivers/openfirmware, even if it's a bit longer.
> >
> >So much for the unix sense of elegance in short names.
> >I think there is zero confusion about what "of" is.
>
> A prepositional word in the English language, as
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/of tells me. And it's used quite often placed
> 2nd.
> Just see http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/03/028258
Stop this sillyness.
If it feels out of context, which "of" will here, people know
to consider it's probably an acronym of some kind.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-01 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 7:22 [PATCH 0/11] Consolidation of Open Firmware routines Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-01 7:24 ` [PATCH 01/11] Split out common parts of prom.h Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-01 7:25 ` [PATCH 02/11] Start split out of common open firmware code Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-01 7:26 ` [PATCH 03/11] Consolidate of_device_is_compatible Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-01 7:27 ` [PATCH 04/11] Consolidate of_find_property Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-01 7:28 ` [PATCH 05/11] Consolidate of_get_parent Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-01 7:29 ` [PATCH 06/11] Consolidate of_get_next_child Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-01 7:30 ` [PATCH 07/11] Consolidate of_find_node_by routines Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-01 7:31 ` [PATCH 08/11] Begin to consolidate of_device.c Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-02 1:23 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-01 7:32 ` [PATCH 09/11] Begin consolidation of of_device.h Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-01 7:33 ` [PATCH 10/11] [SPARC/64] Rename some functions like PowerPC Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-01 7:34 ` [PATCH 11/11] Create linux/of_platorm.h Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-01 8:30 ` [PATCH 0/11] Consolidation of Open Firmware routines Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-01 8:51 ` David Miller
2007-05-01 11:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-01 19:36 ` David Miller [this message]
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