Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Aug 2018 12:37:56 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] RDS is not Radio Data System |
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On Sun 2018-08-05 06:19:45, Sowmini Varadhan wrote: > On (08/05/18 08:59), Pavel Machek wrote: > > Getting prompt "The RDS Protocol" (RDS) is not too helpful, and it is > > easily confused with Radio Data System (which we may want to support > > in kernel, too). > > > > I wonder if option should be named NET_RDS, instead? > > RDS has been around for a while now (since 2.6). How will you > rename proposal manage backward compatibility? Why can't you call > your new option CONFIG_RADIO or similar instead? > > Are we going to rename NFS* to NET_NFS* because someone decided > to reuse the NFS acronym?
Was it?
Because this was first time kernel asked that question... when I was testing -next. Is this related?
commit 533d1daea8d8a389b37207ad7b50c4e750969231 IB: Revert "remove redundant INFINIBAND kconfig dependencies"
> > And this sounds like a good idea: > > - tristate "The RDS Protocol" > > + tristate "The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) Protocol" > > surn that sounds fine.
Can you apply the patch, or do you want me to send it to davem?
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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