Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754257AbcJRXZv (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:25:51 -0400 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:52272 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751638AbcJRXZo (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:25:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:25:42 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Jani Nikula , Linux Doc Mailing List , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve development-process book Message-ID: <20161018172542.20e03081@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20161018082018.17e09799@vento.lan> References: <20161017164342.28d4f0c3@lwn.net> <87shruvuw2.fsf@intel.com> <20161018082018.17e09799@vento.lan> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 871 Lines: 25 On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:20:18 -0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > While at it, how about unifying some of the FilenamesInCamelCase, > > filenames-with-hyphens, and filenames_with_underscores too...? To at > > least move things towards just one of them within one directory. > > Sure, let's do it. I would just keep README as README.rst , as people > are more used to see readme files on upercases. > > For the rest, what's your preference? > > - FooBar.rst > - foo_bar.rst > - foo-bar.rst > > My personal preference is for "foo-bar". I guess that would be mine too. CamelCase is not generally all that popular in kernel space. On one hand, I worry about further renaming files that we're already moving; on the other, if we're going to do it, I guess this would be the time, when people will have to look for them anyway... jon