Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Grover, Andrew" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] /proc/scsi/map | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:59:35 -0700 |
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> From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@transmeta.com] > Bit if somehting is really _useful_ to export to user space > through the fs > model and it makes things easier, that's probably good. Naming is > definitely one of those things - I generally like how the > thing looks in a > file managers tree-view, but some of the names suck and that > shows up cery > clearly at that point, liiking in at 10.000'. > > (Tha ACPI "shouting disease" is really sad. I remember my old > VIC-20, and > how you used all-caps, but I don't think the ACPI people were > sentimental. > They apparently just _like_ ugly four-letter ALL-CAPS names).
ACPI DEVC NAMS ARNT USED FOR MUCH. WE CAN <ahem> lowercase them in driverfs and not hurt anything. The _HID entries under them are the more useful thing, generally.
;-)
Regards -- Andy
PS I don't know about the caps but iirc 4 char names were to make names small and fixed length. This theoretically resulted in easier compares by casting to u32s, and a slightly simpler interpreter. (hah) - 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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