Re: [RFC] Vendor events file/dir names

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Oct 18 2016 - 03:59:17 EST



* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ingo pointed out to me that in the kernel sources we do not use
> file/dir names with uppercase chars (look, for instance, at arch/), so I
> mostly scripted a conversion to lowercase and what I got is at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git perf/vendor_events
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git/log/?h=perf/vendor_events
>
> I did test it on my Lenovo t450s (Broadwell) and got the same
> results as before, and the changed file and directory names don't get
> presented to the user AFAIK, so its just a matter of consistency with
> the existing practices in the kernel sources, no visible difference to
> users.
>
> Please let me know if you have any technical argument against
> this move,

Looks good to me!

Thanks,

Ingo