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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDS is not Radio Data System
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 06:19:45 -0400
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On (08/05/18 08:59), Pavel Machek wrote:
> Getting prompt "The RDS Protocol" (RDS) is not too helpful, and it is
> easily confused with Radio Data System (which we may want to support
> in kernel, too).
> 
> I wonder if option should be named NET_RDS, instead?

RDS has been around for a while now (since 2.6). How will you
rename proposal manage backward compatibility? Why can't you call
your new option CONFIG_RADIO  or similar instead?

Are we going to rename NFS* to NET_NFS* because someone decided
to reuse the NFS acronym? 

> And this sounds like a good idea:
> -	tristate "The RDS Protocol"
> +	tristate "The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) Protocol"

surn that sounds fine.

--Sowmini