Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jul 1999 23:08:31 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: New kernel/resource.c |
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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Jonathan Walther wrote: > > You are right. Thanks for your patience. I cast my vote for "pcbus" > instead of "pci". Love the resource concept.
"pcbus" would certainly fit my requirement for being specific enough, and it's probably non-specific enough that others wouldn't jump up and down too much.
However, at the same time it doesn't actually "say" much to me either. "ioport_resource" is fairly descriptive: the thing it guards are actually commonly called "IO ports". Compared to that "pcbus_io_resource" is too bland, and while it's logical it doesn't tell people who are used to the terminology exactly what's up.
So I've already set my heart on "ioport". I don't know about "iomem", though: nobody calls memory-mapped accesses "IO memory" accesses. "PCI memory" actually describes at least to me exactly what it's all about, which is why I liked "pci_mem_resource". "pcbus_mem" lacks that mental image for me.
Oh, well. It's just a name. Or two, actually.
Linus
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