From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757230AbZDNRWe (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:22:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754061AbZDNRWX (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:22:23 -0400 Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:50273 "EHLO acsinet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752740AbZDNRWW (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:22:22 -0400 Message-ID: <49E4C5BD.1040405@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:19:57 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap Organization: Oracle Linux Engineering User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Alexey Dobriyan , akpm@linux-foundation.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, xemul@parallels.com, serue@us.ibm.com, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@elte.hu, orenl@cs.columbia.edu, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/30] C/R OpenVZ/Virtuozzo style References: <20090410023207.GA27788@x200.localdomain> <20090413073925.GB7085@x200.localdomain> <20090414122906.GA20201@x200.localdomain> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt705.oracle.com [141.146.40.83] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.49E4C5A1.01BA:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >>> We're not merging OpenVZ code _either_. >> This is to give example of other prefixes: cpt_ and rst_ >> Are they fine? http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5513.txt > Do you secretly work for IBM? > > IBM has a well-known disdain for vowels, and basically refuses to use them > for mnemonics (they were called on this, and did "eieio" as an instruction > just to try to make up for it). > > But I'm from Finland. In Finnish, about 75% of all letters are vowels. I > find this dis-emvoweling to be stupid and impractical. Without vowels, you > can't tell Finnish words apart (admittedly, _with_ vowels, you generally > cannot pronounce them, so to a non-Finn it doesn't much matter). > > My point is, let's go for a happy medium - LEAVE THE F*CKING VOWELS IN > PLACE ALREADY. > > So let's call it "checkpoint" and "restore". Ok? restart ? -- ~Randy