Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:06:00 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/23] vfs: Introduce infrastructure for revoking a file |
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On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Why is it called hotplug? Does it have anything to do with hardware? > Because every concurrently changed software data structure in the > kernel can be "hot"-modified, right? > > Wouldn't file_revoke_lock be more appropriate?
I agree, "hotplug" just sounds crazy. It's "open" and "revoke", not "plug" and "unplug".
Linus
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