From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752783Ab2GOX1j (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:27:39 -0400 Received: from unicorn.mansr.com ([78.86.181.103]:34348 "EHLO unicorn.mansr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751191Ab2GOX1g convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:27:36 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 352 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:27:36 EDT From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= To: Catalin Marinas Cc: Ingo Molnar , Arnd Bergmann , Olof Johansson , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds , Russell King , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port References: <1341608777-12982-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <201207071927.13135.arnd@arndb.de> <20120710071023.GA10456@gmail.com> <20120710101018.GE15120@arm.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:21:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20120710101018.GE15120@arm.com> (Catalin Marinas's message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:10:18 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Catalin Marinas writes: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:10:23AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > On Saturday 07 July 2012, Olof Johansson wrote: >> > > > ARM introduced AArch64 as part of the ARMv8 architecture >> > > >> > > With the risk of bikeshedding here, but I find the name awkward. How >> > > about just naming the arch port arm64 instead? It's considerably more >> > > descriptive in the context of the kernel. For reference, we didn't >> > > name ppc64, nor powerpc, after what the IBM/power.org marketing people >> > > were currently calling the architecture at the time either. >> > >> > I agree the name sucks, [...] >> >> So why not change it now, when it only bothers a few dozen >> people and it is only present in 36 patches? Why go full steam >> ahead to annoy thousands of people with it and why spread the >> naming madness to thousands of commits? > > Changing the arch/ dir name is easy at this point. My preference is for > consistency with the official name (that cannot be changed) and the gcc > triplet. I also don't think it annoys thousands of people, most don't > really care. The few reactions I've seen is pretty much because people > were expecting arm64 and it came as something else. FWIW, I'd prefer naming the directory either arm64 or armv8 for a few reasons: - Those are the names people actually use to refer to the architecture - They are more descriptive. - I think the official name is rather silly. Note, these are my personal opinions. -- Måns Rullgård mans@mansr.com