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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] bootconfig: Rename xbc_destroy_all() to xbc_fini()
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 16:48:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210916164805.32592423@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgsST9kbbDf9a3pa91jaPS-of2fB5L2808APd1mnMpCPQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:16:59 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> So I'm not going to NAK 'fini', but it's a completely stupid and
> pointless thing to use and there are better character sequences that
> aren't any more typing and are real words.

I didn't like it when I first saw it, but only was going to take it because
it's used elsewhere in the kernel.

Because of your response, and my initial feeling about the change, I'm going
to leave this patch out, and just review and accept the first three patches
in the series.

Masami, are you OK with that?

-- Steve


  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-16 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-16  6:23 [PATCH v4 0/4] bootconfig: Fixes to bootconfig memory management etc Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-16  6:23 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] bootconfig: init: Fix memblock leak in xbc_make_cmdline() Masami Hiramatsu
2021-10-07  1:02   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-07  1:43     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-10-07  1:49       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-09-16  6:23 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] bootconfig: Allocate xbc_data inside xbc_init() Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-16  6:23 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] bootconfig: Add xbc_get_info() for the node information Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-16  6:23 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] bootconfig: Rename xbc_destroy_all() to xbc_fini() Masami Hiramatsu
2021-09-16 13:26   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-09-16 20:16     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-16 20:48       ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2021-09-16 23:20         ` Masami Hiramatsu

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