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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:28:51 +0400 From: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@...il.com> To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de> CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel thread names that might offend users. Johannes Weiner wrote: > More and more GNOME users (especially Ubuntu) get confused by their > process list showing several process names that seem to indicate > KDE-related services. > > To settle things down a bit on the bugtrackers, this patch renames all > offending kernel threads into something that goes better with > GNOME-based systems. > > Since KDE is essentially dead, the thread-names are not made > compile-time configurable but rather just renamed completely here to > fit modern distributions. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de> > --- > > Please note that these hard-coded names are going to be removed soon > completely in another patch series that makes kernel thread names more > `themable' in the sense that users may supply a format string in > /proc/sys/kernel/kthread_fmt which allows having customizable names > like "-=[acpid]=-" or similar. > > Also, please let me know if I forgot something. Did you forget to send this patch yesterday in which case this would have been more suitable for April 1st? Dmitri -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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