From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752614AbYAURu1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:50:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751170AbYAURuP (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:50:15 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:15767 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751163AbYAURuN (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:50:13 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=DtUvMRLQYPLFYm33vZDMRIgYoXfQC1Kg914gvjJnmIHk2TBSvtIFPovTp6s/jUc5fw5ZsbuPgvMGF6kpX8+OlXUcTocBSr/YYFucWhfniHmd3Ale9+R1poTow8060k+rlhn/0IqDw5MeJDkeU/TPxPDO0VprsDcAM1DSCCd9eGk= Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:49:54 +0300 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Yinghai Lu , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Jesse Barnes , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: check if Tom2 is enabled Message-ID: <20080121174954.GC6722@cvg> References: <200801192045.17291.yinghai.lu@sun.com> <200801202140.57829.yinghai.lu@sun.com> <200801210658.04030.ak@suse.de> <200801202257.47195.yinghai.lu@sun.com> <20080121172437.GA6722@cvg> <4794D8C4.3000306@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4794D8C4.3000306@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [H. Peter Anvin - Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:39:16AM -0800] > Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: >> is it possible to change 'l' and 'h' to 'low' and 'high'? >> 'cause 'l' does look like '1' (one) number... > > I think you should use a different font. Otherwise we're soon in a > position where we can't abbreviate anything that starts with L and keep > using lower case throughout. That doesn't seem like a valid tradeoff to > me. > > There are plenty of fonts which have good visual distinction between l and > 1 and O and 0. > > -hpa > Hi Peter, of course you're right!!! but... actually the only several symbols affected on this: 1-l, O-0 (maybe a few more, dunno) and that is the case for one-letter-ID only and that is so easy to avoid a such situation. Anyway - as you wish ;) - Cyrill -