Re: Weird spelling fixes in 2.1.107

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
26 Jun 1998 19:14:22 GMT

Followup to: <199806261344.XAA16788@suede.sw.oz.au>
By author: Peter Swain <swine@softway.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> this is 2.1.xxx
> you *can* and should break things here
> so 2.2 gets a consistent interface, in which the doco doesn't have to
> apologise for the way things just happen to have been coded.
>
> CPU is in caps
> central processing unit is not
>
> either we abandon caps completely
> or we get them right
>

There *WAS* a consistent keyword interface:

1. No caps, anywhere
2. Underscores instead of whitespace

This is easy to parse in scripts and stuff. Whomever broke that made
Linux a huge disservice, and this even makes it more broken.

I would say put the old keywords back, if anything.

-hpa

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