Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757566Ab0BLAMH (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:12:07 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:51583 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757509Ab0BLAMD (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:12:03 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:11:59 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: Hank Janssen Cc: Greg KH , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , Haiyang Zhang Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Staging: hv: General maintenance of TODO file Message-ID: <20100212001159.GC13769@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <8AFC7968D54FB448A30D8F38F259C56212E881A9@TK5EX14MBXC118.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <8AFC7968D54FB448A30D8F38F259C56212E88291@TK5EX14MBXC118.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> <20100211213816.GB29557@suse.de> <20100211232056.GA13769@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20100211233234.GA10315@suse.de> <8AFC7968D54FB448A30D8F38F259C56212E8847D@TK5EX14MBXC118.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8AFC7968D54FB448A30D8F38F259C56212E8847D@TK5EX14MBXC118.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1064 Lines: 28 On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:46:48PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote: > >> On a side note, when this becomes mainstream, could you give it a more > >> descriptive name than just "hv"? "Hv" already means at least two > >> possible things to me -- "hypervisor" or "high volume" -- neither of > >> which appear to be what this code is about. > > > >"hyperv" should be sufficient, right? > > > >thanks, > > > >greg k-h > > I was thinking of using that, but would that confuse it with hypervisor > which is more of a general term? If the consensus is that it would not than > I am in favor of changing it to hyperv. > > ms_hyperv would make it to long? I don't believe "hyperv" is a generally-used abbreviation of "hypervisor". You could do "ms_hyperv" if you like, but I wouldn't regard the "ms_" prefix as essential. Paul. -- 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/