From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79803C433E0 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 07:01:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357856196E for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 07:01:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229979AbhCVHA7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2021 03:00:59 -0400 Received: from szxga05-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.191]:14000 "EHLO szxga05-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229614AbhCVHAk (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2021 03:00:40 -0400 Received: from DGGEMS404-HUB.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.58]) by szxga05-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4F3lhZ27hMzwPYD; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 14:58:38 +0800 (CST) Received: from [10.174.176.202] (10.174.176.202) by DGGEMS404-HUB.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.204) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.498.0; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:00:33 +0800 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 fixes for v5.12 To: Theodore Ts'o , Gao Xiang CC: Linus Torvalds , Ext4 Developers List , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20210322030513.GA1925732@xiangao.remote.csb> From: Zhang Yi Message-ID: <4d997845-fcc7-93bd-a053-462a12ca7e34@huawei.com> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:00:33 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.174.176.202] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2021/3/22 11:36, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:05:13AM +0800, Gao Xiang wrote: >> I think the legel name would be "Zhang Yi" (family name goes first [1]) >> according to >> The Chinese phonetic alphabet spelling rules for Chinese names [2]. >> >> Indeed, that is also what the legel name is written in alphabet on our >> passport or credit/debit cards. >> >> Also, many official English-written materials use it in that way, for >> example, a somewhat famous bastetball player Yao Ming [3][4][5]. >> >> That is what I wrote my own name as this but I also noticed the western >> ordering of names is quite common for Chinese people in Linux kernel. >> Anyway, it's just my preliminary personal thought (might be just my >> own perference) according to (I think, maybe) formal occasions. > > Yeah, there doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency with the ordering > of Chinese names when they are written in Roman characters. Some > people put the family name first, and other people will put the > personal (first) name first. In some cases it may be because the > developer in question is living in America, and so they've decided to > use the American naming convention. (Two example of this are former > ext4 developers Mingming Cao and Jiaying Zhang, who live in Portland > and Los Angelos, and their family names are Cao and Zhang, > respectively.) > > My personal opinion is people should use whatever name they are > comfortable with, using whatever characters they prefer. The one > thing that would be helpful for me is for people to give a hint about > how they would prefer to be called --- for example, would you prefer > that start an e-mail with the salutation, "Hi Gao", "Hi Xiang", or "Hi > Gao Xiang"? > > And if I don't know, and I guess wrong, please feel free to correct > me, either privately, or publically on the e-mail list, if you think > it would be helpful for more people to understand how you'd prefer to > be called. > Hi, Ted and Xiang I didn't think about it in depth before, and thanks for your suggestion, I think use "Zhang Yi" is more suitable for me now. Thanks, Yi