Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition

From	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition
Date	2015-08-27 17:40 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hp.com> wrote:
> I don't see why we can't fix the names so they make sense now before there
> is hardware in the market.  People doing testing and debugging look at stuff
> in /sys and they write their own scripts too, not necessarily in python.

The practical concern at this point is that it is too late in the 4.2
development cycle, in my opinion, to push for a cosmetic change like
this.  We also have versions of libndctl starting to leak into
distributions.  Changing this in 4.3 means breaking the ABI from 4.2
and managing both ways in future versions of the library as well as
getting all distributions to update.  Not insurmountable, but also
something I don't want to take on just for a few characters in a sysfs
file.  I think this is better fixed with documentation which I still
owe to the the Documentation/ABI/ directory.
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[PATCH 0/2]: acpi, nfit: Clarify memory device state flags Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> - 2015-08-26 18:30 +0200
  [PATCH 1/2]: nfit: Clarify memory device state flags strings Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> - 2015-08-26 18:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2]: nfit: Clarify memory device state flags strings Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> - 2015-08-27 05:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2]: nfit: Clarify memory device state flags strings Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> - 2015-08-27 16:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2]: nfit: Clarify memory device state flags strings Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-27 21:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2]: nfit: Clarify memory device state flags strings Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> - 2015-08-27 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> - 2015-08-26 18:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-26 19:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hp.com> - 2015-08-26 22:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> - 2015-08-26 23:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-26 23:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> - 2015-08-26 23:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-27 00:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hp.com> - 2015-08-27 16:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hp.com> - 2015-08-27 17:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-27 18:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hp.com> - 2015-08-27 18:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hp.com> - 2015-08-27 19:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-27 19:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2015-08-27 17:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2015-08-27 01:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> - 2015-08-27 01:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> - 2015-08-27 01:40 +0200
              RE: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> - 2015-08-27 04:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 2/2]: acpica/nfit: Rename not-armed bit definition Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> - 2015-08-27 16:40 +0200

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