linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] treewide: Rename "unencrypted" to "decrypted"

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Message-ID: <20200317213100.GH15609@zn.tnic>
Date:   Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:31:14 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Schofield, Alison" <alison.schofield@...el.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        "Shutemov, Kirill" <kirill.shutemov@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: Rename "unencrypted" to "decrypted"

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:24:59PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> No, there are just two states.  I just think the "!encrypted" case
> should not be called "decrypted".

Yeah, we suck at naming - news at 11! :-)

I believe we even considered things like "encrypted" vs "clear" but
that sucked too. ;-\

In any case, that ship has sailed now and having two as differently as
possible looking words to denote the two "states" should be good enough
for our purposes...

Oh well.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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