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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix kernel thread names that might offend users.
Johannes Weiner wrote:
> More and more GNOME users (especially Ubuntu) get confused by their
> process list showing several process names that seem to indicate
> KDE-related services.
>
> To settle things down a bit on the bugtrackers, this patch renames all
> offending kernel threads into something that goes better with
> GNOME-based systems.
>
> Since KDE is essentially dead, the thread-names are not made
> compile-time configurable but rather just renamed completely here to
> fit modern distributions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
> ---
>
> Please note that these hard-coded names are going to be removed soon
> completely in another patch series that makes kernel thread names more
> `themable' in the sense that users may supply a format string in
> /proc/sys/kernel/kthread_fmt which allows having customizable names
> like "-=[acpid]=-" or similar.
>
> Also, please let me know if I forgot something.

Did you forget to send this patch yesterday in which case this would have
been more suitable for April 1st?

Dmitri


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