Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:11:59 +1100 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] Staging: hv: General maintenance of TODO file |
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:46:48PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote: > >> On a side note, when this becomes mainstream, could you give it a more > >> descriptive name than just "hv"? "Hv" already means at least two > >> possible things to me -- "hypervisor" or "high volume" -- neither of > >> which appear to be what this code is about. > > > >"hyperv" should be sufficient, right? > > > >thanks, > > > >greg k-h > > I was thinking of using that, but would that confuse it with hypervisor > which is more of a general term? If the consensus is that it would not than > I am in favor of changing it to hyperv. > > ms_hyperv would make it to long?
I don't believe "hyperv" is a generally-used abbreviation of "hypervisor". You could do "ms_hyperv" if you like, but I wouldn't regard the "ms_" prefix as essential.
Paul.
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