From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758881AbYDAWUe (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:20:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752047AbYDAWU0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:20:26 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:27785 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750868AbYDAWU0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 18:20:26 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:18:59 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Johannes Weiner Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel thread names that might offend users. Message-Id: <20080401151859.e6e16d58.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <87r6dps3db.fsf@saeurebad.de> References: <87r6dps3db.fsf@saeurebad.de> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (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-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:54:08 +0200 Johannes Weiner wrote: > More and more GNOME users (especially Ubuntu) get confused by their > process list showing several process names that seem to indicate > KDE-related services. so s/offend/confuse/ > To settle things down a bit on the bugtrackers, this patch renames all > offending kernel threads into something that goes better with > GNOME-based systems. > > Since KDE is essentially dead, the thread-names are not made > compile-time configurable but rather just renamed completely here to > fit modern distributions. but, but, the 'k' means kernel. Is that so bad? and [OT], why is KDE essentially dead? > --- > > Please note that these hard-coded names are going to be removed soon > completely in another patch series that makes kernel thread names more > `themable' in the sense that users may supply a format string in > /proc/sys/kernel/kthread_fmt which allows having customizable names > like "-=[acpid]=-" or similar. WHY? Just eye candy + bloat in the kernel? > Also, please let me know if I forgot something. --- ~Randy