Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932782AbVITRqG (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:46:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932786AbVITRqG (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:46:06 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:63206 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932785AbVITRqE (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:46:04 -0400 Message-ID: <43304ADC.7000603@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:46:04 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikita Danilov CC: Lorenzo Allegrucci , Nick Piggin , Alan Cox , thenewme91@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig , Denis Vlasenko , chriswhite@gentoo.org, lkml , ReiserFS List , Nate Diller Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel References: <200509180934.50789.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <432FC150.9020807@namesys.com> <20050920114253.GL10845@suse.de> <200509201530.01808.l.allegrucci@gmail.com> <17200.5343.908617.558388@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <17200.5343.908617.558388@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 705 Lines: 27 Nikita Danilov wrote: >Lorenzo Allegrucci writes: > >[...] > > > >>Why not just rename the kernel option "elevator" to "iosched" ? >> >> > >At least update Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to be consistent, >but I think kernel boot options are considered to be a part of the "user >space API" and, as such, cannot be changed that easily. > >Nikita. > > > > You could make both names work, and then deprecate "elevator"..... - 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/