Re: [RFC][PATCH][1/4] RSS controller setup

[Matthew Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 16:43 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> Paul Menage wrote:
> > On 2/19/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

<snip>

> > Hmm, I don't appear to have documented this yet, but I think a good
> > naming scheme for container files is <subsystem>.<whatever> - i.e.
> > these should be memctlr.usage and memctlr.limit. The existing
> > grandfathered Cpusets names violate this, but I'm not sure there's a
> > lot we can do about that.
> > 
> 
> Why <subsystem>.<whatever>, dots are harder to parse using regular
> expressions and sound DOS'ish. I'd prefer "_" to separate the
> subsystem and whatever :-)

"_" is useful for names with "spaces". Names like mem_controller. "."
seems reasonable despite its regex nastyness. Alternatively there's
always ":".

<snip>

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley

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