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Date:	Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:59:42 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Chema Gonzalez <chema@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 04/14] bpf: update MAINTAINERS entry

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> Add MAINTAINERS entry.
>
> On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 17:05 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> []
>> @@ -1881,6 +1881,15 @@ S:     Supported
>>  F:   drivers/net/bonding/
>>  F:   include/uapi/linux/if_bonding.h
>>
>> +BPF
>
> While a lot of people know what BPF is, I think it'd
> be better to have something like
>
> BPF - SOCKET FILTER (Berkeley Packet Filter like)

BPF is indeed succinct, but 'socket filter' suffix would be misleading,
since it's way more than just socket filtering.
May be: "BPF (Safe dynamic programs and tools)"
since 'perf' will become 'stap/dtrace'-like based on this infra.
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