From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: joe@perches.com
Cc: benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, pekkas@netcore.fi,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] [IPv6] spelling fix in /proc: /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/temp_prefered_lft
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:56:49 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080319.185649.235399151.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205976319.26345.20.camel@localhost>
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:25:19 -0700
> On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 13:52 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
> > Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:42:27 +0100
> > > Here is a patch to fix all the spelling error (prefered -> preferred)
> > I think this doesn't add any value.
> > If the procfs file name has to remain the same, which it does,
> > changing variable and macro names to be different will only
> > cause merge conflicts and pain yet have no redeeming value.
>
> I disagree. Proper spelling has value.
Only if it matches the spelling of thing it is implementing!
Making the object being implemented and the variables used to do so
disagree in name will only create other kinds of confusion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-20 1:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-19 20:42 [PATCH] [RFC] [IPv6] spelling fix in /proc: /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/temp_prefered_lft Benoit Boissinot
2008-03-19 20:52 ` David Miller
2008-03-19 23:17 ` Rick Jones
2008-03-19 23:53 ` David Miller
2008-03-20 1:25 ` Joe Perches
2008-03-20 1:56 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-03-20 9:00 ` Benoit Boissinot
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