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SubjectRe: [bk/patch] Rename driverfs to kfs

On 7 Oct 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210071701460.16276-100000@cherise.pdx.osdl.net>
> By author: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > It's the incredible mutable filesystem. As was talked about at the Kernel
> > Summit in Ottawa, and as has been threatened in the past three months,
> > here is the patch to rename driverfs to kfs.
> >
>
> I'd prefer calling it kernelfs or kernfs. [a-z]fs is a bit too busy a
> namespace.

I personally like kfs, though I agree that the namespace is busy:

bfs/
efs/
hfs/
jfs/
nfs/
ufs/
xfs/

Does Linus have an opinion? He apparently doesn't love me anymore, so I'm
not sure that he's even paying attention, or he still agrees with the
change..

-pat

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