From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751529AbaF1F7p (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:59:45 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f176.google.com ([209.85.212.176]:42505 "EHLO mail-wi0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750837AbaF1F7n (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:59:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1403914688.9064.20.camel@joe-AO725> References: <1403913966-4927-1-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com> <1403913966-4927-5-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com> <1403914688.9064.20.camel@joe-AO725> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:59:42 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 04/14] bpf: update MAINTAINERS entry From: Alexei Starovoitov To: Joe Perches Cc: "David S. Miller" , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Steven Rostedt , Daniel Borkmann , Chema Gonzalez , Eric Dumazet , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Kees Cook , Linux API , Network Development , LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > Add MAINTAINERS entry. > > On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 17:05 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > [] >> @@ -1881,6 +1881,15 @@ S: Supported >> F: drivers/net/bonding/ >> F: include/uapi/linux/if_bonding.h >> >> +BPF > > While a lot of people know what BPF is, I think it'd > be better to have something like > > BPF - SOCKET FILTER (Berkeley Packet Filter like) BPF is indeed succinct, but 'socket filter' suffix would be misleading, since it's way more than just socket filtering. May be: "BPF (Safe dynamic programs and tools)" since 'perf' will become 'stap/dtrace'-like based on this infra. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexei Starovoitov Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 04/14] bpf: update MAINTAINERS entry Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:59:42 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1403913966-4927-1-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com> <1403913966-4927-5-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com> <1403914688.9064.20.camel@joe-AO725> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "David S. Miller" , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Steven Rostedt , Daniel Borkmann , Chema Gonzalez , Eric Dumazet , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , Kees Cook , Linux API , Network Development , LKML To: Joe Perches Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1403914688.9064.20.camel@joe-AO725> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > Add MAINTAINERS entry. > > On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 17:05 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > [] >> @@ -1881,6 +1881,15 @@ S: Supported >> F: drivers/net/bonding/ >> F: include/uapi/linux/if_bonding.h >> >> +BPF > > While a lot of people know what BPF is, I think it'd > be better to have something like > > BPF - SOCKET FILTER (Berkeley Packet Filter like) BPF is indeed succinct, but 'socket filter' suffix would be misleading, since it's way more than just socket filtering. May be: "BPF (Safe dynamic programs and tools)" since 'perf' will become 'stap/dtrace'-like based on this infra.