From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Mark Allyn <mark.a.allyn@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@linux.intel.com,
charles.f.johnson@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename rar_driver to rar_register
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:06:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100119040641.GA9527@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100119012307.6b40d2db@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 01:23:07AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:12:43 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:21:36PM -0800, Mark Allyn wrote:
> > > The purpose of this patch is to change the name of rar_register source
> > > files (both the .c and .h files) to rar_register.
> > >
> > > This is the first of seven patches for the rar_register driver
> > > for Sunday, January 17, 2009
> > >
> > > This is to clarify that this driver is for the rar_register.
> >
> > What does that mean? Why does the name matter?
>
> RAR are the registers. The code handles the registers. There are things
> that use the registers which are drivers but are not this code. It could
> almost be "librar" except it's not quite used as a library
Ok, thanks for the info, it would be good to have this in the changelog
entry for the next patch series submission.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-19 4:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-18 21:21 [PATCH] Rename rar_driver to rar_register Mark Allyn
2010-01-18 21:45 ` Marcel Holtmann
2010-01-19 0:12 ` Greg KH
2010-01-19 0:12 ` Greg KH
2010-01-19 1:23 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-19 4:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
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