From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754172AbZK2JKQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:10:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753316AbZK2JKP (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:10:15 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:12988 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752618AbZK2JKN (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:10:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4B123A34.5090509@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:09:08 +0100 From: Stefan Assmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090922 Fedora/3.0-3.9.b4.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jesse Barnes , Krzysztof Halasa , Don Dutile , kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] change PCI nomenclature according to PCI-SIG References: <4B110F79.8080405@redhat.com> <4B111ADC.9020800@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <4B111ADC.9020800@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 28.11.2009 13:43, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On 11/28/2009 06:54 AM, Stefan Assmann wrote: >> From: Stefan Assmann >> >> Changing occurrences of variants of PCI-X and PCIe to the PCI-SIG >> terms listed in the "Trademark and Logo Usage Guidelines". >> http://www.pcisig.com/developers/procedures/logos/Trademark_and_Logo_Usage_Guidelines_updated_112206.pdf >> >> Additionally some renames of Gb/s to GT/s where appropriate, concerns >> PCIe. >> >> This is a followup to the discussion at: >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/107 >> Patch is based on 2.6.32-rc8. >> >> Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann > > NAK, this clearly introduces bugs and changes sysfs output (ABI). > > Typically this type of change is pointless churn that creates far more > problems than it "solves." Hi Jeff, I see you point in not liking this kind of change. What kind of cleanup would be ok in your opinion? Stefan -- Stefan Assmann | Red Hat GmbH Software Engineer | Otto-Hahn-Strasse 20, 85609 Dornach | HR: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 153243 | GF: Brendan Lane, Charlie Peters, sassmann at redhat.com | Michael Cunningham, Charles Cachera