Re: [PATCH] perf: add const qualifier to perf_pmu_register's 'name' arg

[James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>]

On 04/06/13 12:18, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 04:39:05PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> On 06/04/2013 04:33 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> Simlar 'complaint' for the ARC stuff really, only marketing speak :-) 
>>
>> You mean lack of prefix in this case (as opposed to MetaG).
> 
> Nah, lack of proper (!markting speak) introduction to the arch ;-)
> 
> Is there something like the Intel SDM for these archs,

For metag, see the patchset intro for a brief (hopefully !marketing)
intro and links to documentation. Meta is the marketing name, metag is
generally used in code which reduces ambiguity with the word meta - tbh
I'm not certain whether metag is short for metagence or means something
else, but it's been that way for years now.

http://lwn.net/Articles/534906/

> if so, do we want
> to make it easier to find them for people?

Where would you suggest?

Some other arches link to the linux-$ARCH project homepages in Kconfig
help text which makes sense as that can then link to various
documentation and be more easily kept up to date. Not all arches have a
big project around them like that though.

Cheers
James