Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:29:38 -0400 (EDT) | From | Trevor Johnson <> | Subject | Re: Weird spelling fixes in 2.1.107 |
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> - "cpu family\t: %c\n" > + "CPU family\t: %c\n" > > The worst one -- this breaks interface between the kernel and apps.
The /proc/cpuinfo file is normally read by humans. I think applications which use it should be adapted to what is best suited for humans.
> - "RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid ramdisk image starting at %d.\n", > + "RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at %d.\n", > > I see no need for doing inconsistent changes in device naming.
If there was a change in the naming of devices, it was not my doing. I don't find it inconsistent to have a driver called "RAMDISK" and a file /dev/ramdisk which allow the use of RAM disks.
> People should > not change such things blindly by just doing string replace without having > understood their semantics and preferably sending them to the author first (I > know it happened in case of Documentation/svga.txt, but it should have happened > for changes in all other files maintained by me as well).
I agree. I announced most of the changes on linux-kernel (no one had any remarks about the 2.1.106 version), then split them up and attempted to send them to the maintainers, as listed in the MAINTAINERS file. Here is a list showing the maintainers to whom I've submitted patches:
spelling-2.1.106-andersen.diff spelling-2.1.106-kozin.diff spelling-2.1.106-anvin.diff spelling-2.1.106-kysela.diff spelling-2.1.106-baechle.diff spelling-2.1.106-layes.diff spelling-2.1.106-banks.diff spelling-2.1.106-lendecke.diff spelling-2.1.106-baranowski.diff spelling-2.1.106-mares.diff spelling-2.1.106-blundell.diff spelling-2.1.106-martin.diff spelling-2.1.106-boldt.diff spelling-2.1.106-moenkeberg.2.diff spelling-2.1.106-card.diff spelling-2.1.106-moenkeberg.diff spelling-2.1.106-chaffee.diff spelling-2.1.106-nalis.diff spelling-2.1.106-chastain.diff spelling-2.1.106-naylor.diff spelling-2.1.106-cheshire.diff spelling-2.1.106-oxman.diff spelling-2.1.106-cox.diff spelling-2.1.106-robinson.diff spelling-2.1.106-dost.diff spelling-2.1.106-sailer.diff spelling-2.1.106-dougan-mackerras.diff spelling-2.1.106-saito.diff spelling-2.1.106-elfert.diff spelling-2.1.106-schulist.diff spelling-2.1.106-fischer.diff spelling-2.1.106-sorensen.diff spelling-2.1.106-gortmaker.diff spelling-2.1.106-torvalds.diff spelling-2.1.106-heine.diff spelling-2.1.106-tourrilhes.diff spelling-2.1.106-ipnet.diff spelling-2.1.106-wieringen.diff spelling-2.1.106-king.diff spelling-2.1.106-zagorac.diff spelling-2.1.106-koensgen.diff
E-mail to a couple of the maintainers bounced, and there were some files which didn't seem to be mentioned in MAINTAINERS. For those, I submitted the proposed changes to linux-patches (where one person made a comment) and they were applied by Linus.
/usr/src/kernel/linux> grep -i2 mares MAINTAINERS
PCI SUBSYSTEM P: Martin Mares M: mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz L: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu --
SVGA HANDLING: P: Martin Mares M: mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz L: linux-video@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
None of the files for which I had changes looked as though they belonged to the PCI subsystem. I just looked for files and directories which had some variation of "pci" in their names. I'm sorry if I misidentified some. ___ Trevor Johnson
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