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From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: speck@linutronix.de
Subject: [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH 2/2] more sampling fun 2
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:20:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200226202010.k42cf4625ckk6ym6@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200225145906.GB6012@zn.tnic>

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 03:59:06PM +0100, speck for Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > I'd expect to call this one "SRBDS" a year from now. I find
> > "srb_sampling" to be confusing and hard to remember because it renames
> > something that already has an industry standard name.
> 
> srb_sampling *is* srbds - just more readable.
> 
> We are not giving any new names to the vulns - we're simply making our command
> line options more readable so that when you have to type them, you either have
> to remember "srbds" - in that order - or "srb sampling".
> 
> Latter is easier for me.

But you're leaving out the "data" portion of the acronym/name.

Either call it "srbds" or "special_register_buffer_data_sampling" -- but
*please* don't give it a new name.  It will just create more confusion.

If you can't remember what srbds stands for, that's why we have
documentation and search engines.

-- 
Josh

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-26 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-24 17:31 [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH 2/2] more sampling fun 2 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2020-02-24 18:17 ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2020-02-24 21:39   ` mark gross
2020-02-24 23:10     ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2020-02-25  1:26       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-02-25 10:46         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-25 14:18           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-02-25 14:23             ` Jiri Kosina
2020-02-25 14:44               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2020-02-25 14:59             ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-26 20:20               ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2020-02-26 21:16                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-02-26 22:19                   ` [MODERATED] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
     [not found] <c5bae80efe4694c81d9cbbce633a2228086a330c.158215=?utf-8?q?2322?= .git.mgross@linux.intel.com>
2020-02-20 19:06 ` Ben Hutchings
2020-02-20 19:35   ` mark gross
2020-02-21 22:25     ` mark gross

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