Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753425AbbH0Paj (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:30:39 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-f50.google.com ([209.85.213.50]:36668 "EHLO mail-vk0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752502AbbH0Pah (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:30:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55DF21FC.8020106@hp.com> References: <1440606024-29873-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> <1440606024-29873-3-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> <1440623522.14237.57.camel@hp.com> <1440625466.14237.62.camel@hp.com> <55DF21FC.8020106@hp.com> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:30:36 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition From: Dan Williams To: Linda Knippers Cc: Toshi Kani , Rafael J Wysocki , Robert Moore , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , Linux ACPI , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1147 Lines: 19 On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Linda Knippers wrote: > I don't see why we can't fix the names so they make sense now before there > is hardware in the market. People doing testing and debugging look at stuff > in /sys and they write their own scripts too, not necessarily in python. The practical concern at this point is that it is too late in the 4.2 development cycle, in my opinion, to push for a cosmetic change like this. We also have versions of libndctl starting to leak into distributions. Changing this in 4.3 means breaking the ABI from 4.2 and managing both ways in future versions of the library as well as getting all distributions to update. Not insurmountable, but also something I don't want to take on just for a few characters in a sysfs file. I think this is better fixed with documentation which I still owe to the the Documentation/ABI/ directory. -- 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/