Messages in this thread |  | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | | Subject | Re: Weird spelling fixes in 2.1.107 | | Date | 26 Jun 1998 19:14:22 GMT |
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Followup to: <199806261344.XAA16788@suede.sw.oz.au> By author: Peter Swain <swine@softway.com.au> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > this is 2.1.xxx > you *can* and should break things here > so 2.2 gets a consistent interface, in which the doco doesn't have to > apologise for the way things just happen to have been coded. > > CPU is in caps > central processing unit is not > > either we abandon caps completely > or we get them right >
There *WAS* a consistent keyword interface:
1. No caps, anywhere 2. Underscores instead of whitespace
This is easy to parse in scripts and stuff. Whomever broke that made Linux a huge disservice, and this even makes it more broken.
I would say put the old keywords back, if anything.
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