Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools/memory-model: clarify the origin/scope of the tool name

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, Andrea Parri wrote:

> Ingo pointed out that:
> 
>   "The "memory model" name is overly generic, ambiguous and somewhat
>    misleading, as we usually mean the virtual memory layout/model
>    when we say "memory model". GCC too uses it in that sense [...]"
> 
> Make it clearer that, in the context of tools/memory-model/, the term
> "memory-model" is used as shorthand for "memory consistency model" by
> calling out this convention in tools/memory-model/README.
> 
> Stick to the full name in sources' headers and for the subsystem name.
> 
> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>

For both patches:

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>