linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] XFS update for 3.1-rc4

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFxEyj8qJnr9QR3Scy7SFocEr2BNA9z4PXs7q9rpkXM1vQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:46:30 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alex Elder <aelder@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] XFS update for 3.1-rc4

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Alex Elder <aelder@....com> wrote:
>
> Linus, please pull the following XFS changes.  Their effect is to
> remove the subdirectory structure from the XFS source hierarchy.
> There are no functional changes to the XFS code itself.  Thanks.

Pulled.

Any plans to further sanitize the namespace?

It's kind of crazy to have filenames like

   fs/xfs/xfs_trace.c

which just duplicate the "xfs" part for no good reason. Why not just
do something like

  for i in xfs_*; do j=$(echo $i | sed 's/^xfs_//'); git mv $i $j; done

to get rid of the silly "xfs_" prefix that adds nothing?

You could use the bytes you save to rename "qm.c" to "quota_manager.c"
instead. Wouldn't it be nice to have *good* names, instead of a jumble
of crazy and mostly redundant letters?

                        Linus
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