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

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Aug 23 2011 - 14:47:02 EST


On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx> 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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