From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767106AbXDEPkJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 11:40:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767104AbXDEPkI (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 11:40:08 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:20754 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767106AbXDEPkH (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 11:40:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:41:55 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Andrew Morton , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: lkml , hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc/kernel-parameters: use IA-32 tag instead of i386 Message-Id: <20070405084155.e00687a4.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20070404224152.29062e47.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070404220534.36cd24e9.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070404224152.29062e47.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 22:41:52 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 22:05:34 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > Use documented tag for "IA-32" (not "i386") to indicate which > > kernel parameters apply to IA-32. > > mv arch/i386 arch/ia32 ;) > > Seriously, is there any point in this? Kernel uses the i386 terminology > and surely there's no confusion over what that represents. Just that Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt explains what "IA-32" means when it is used on kernel parameter descriptions: IA-32 IA-32 aka i386 architecture is enabled. Our docs need some work. No news there. hpa wrote: | We call this architecture "i386" everywhere else. I think it makes more | sense to change the documented tag to "i386", especially with Intel | sometimes calling x86-64 "IA-32e". Sounds reasonable. Alan wrote: | NAK. IA-32 is an Intel specific term, and I believe a protected mark at | that. OMG, quick, please send a patch for Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. (big ;) --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***