Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Warne <> | Subject | Re: Question on Space.c | Date | Mon, 29 May 2006 19:11:25 +0100 |
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On Monday 29 May 2006 19:05, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 29/05/06, Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net> wrote: > > I saw Space.o being build, and seeing as it is Capitalised thought I > > would see why, and maybe a patch to make it all lower case. > > [snip] > > > I have looked though docs and googled as to why this One File Is Like > > This to no avail? Convention? > > The normal convention is for filenames to be all lowercase except for > some special ones like "Makefile", "Kconfig", "README" etc (although > there are a few exceptions,for source files, like > drivers/scsi/NCR5380.c, include/asm-m68knommu/MC68328.h, > drivers/block/DAC960.c and others). > To find some more, try this in the kernel source dir : find ./ -name > "[A-Z]*" > > It would make sense to me personally to rename this one, but it's not > my call and besides it'll open a whole can of worms about whether or > not to rename the other ones...
Well, I don't think so. Apart from the really conventional file names (Makefile et al), the others you mentioned are abbreviations*, so it is obvious. Now Ncr5380.c would be a different kettle of fish...
Nick * abbreviation: a long word used to describe a short word used in place of a long word. -- "Person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt person doing it." -Chinese Proverb - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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