Re: [PATCH] RDS is not Radio Data System

From: Sowmini Varadhan
Date: Sun Aug 05 2018 - 06:20:04 EST


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?

> And this sounds like a good idea:
> - tristate "The RDS Protocol"
> + tristate "The Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) Protocol"

surn that sounds fine.

--Sowmini