Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 06:53:32 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r331226 - in head/sys: amd64/linux amd64/linux32 i386/linux Message-ID: <20180321064039.L4104@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2AOnfaTJEzffrfDvSxRphA_EYMe=uXkPmGP17G8YMSagA@mail.gmail.com> References: <201803192126.w2JLQW0N039356@repo.freebsd.org> <20180320183744.S950@besplex.bde.org> <CAPyFy2AOnfaTJEzffrfDvSxRphA_EYMe=uXkPmGP17G8YMSagA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, Ed Maste wrote: > On 20 March 2018 at 04:19, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> >> It is preferable to have a well-chosen (short...) prefix. The linux >> emulator mostly uses l_ for internal names. That is a bit too short >> for external names. > > l_ is too short. The only reasonable alternative is probably lnx_ but > saving two characters seems does not seem worth it. lx_ is reasonable. /sys currently has 1321 lines matching lx_ and 0 lines matching '[^A-Za-z_]lx_', but 865 lines matching lnx_ (mostly for qlnxe(4)). Bruce
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