Please pull from 'for-2.6.28' branch

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Oct 21 15:08:35 EST 2008


On Oct 20, 2008, at 10:51 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 22:45 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>
>> If you had conventions on naming this is the first I've heard of
>> them.  I know Paul asked about the [POWERPC] to powerpc: change on
>> list.
>
> Well, they weren't official, but others seem to have picked them up,  
> no
> big deal but heh, here now you know about them :-)
>
>> I do so as well.  As stated above, if there are naming conventions
>> that are desired I'm happy to conform but just need to know what they
>> are.
>
> Well, my aim is mostly consistency. If you don't like what I want, I'm
> happy to discuss it, but I'd like basically to keep consistency in the
> naming conventions. In some cases though, my comment also refers to  
> the
> subject being a tad too vague to my taste. I know there isn't a strict
> definition of what is good enough or not and we definitely don't  
> want a
> 3 lines novel there, but in the case of the .dts file update, it would
> have been useful to highlight that fact for example.

As stated, I know now so I'm happy to conform.

>> The limit is based on trust.  I submitted all the other cleanup
>> patches to remove PPC_MERGE.  I think I can handle such a patch going
>> via my tree.
>
> I would have still preferred if we had discussed it before hand...

Yeah, see my previous gripe about trivial patches and my tree :)

- k



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