Following Criticism By Linus Torvalds, GenPD Subsystem Renamed To "pmdomain"

[skeevy420]

Plenty of things in open source aren’t immediately obvious to an unfamiliar user, especially in a project as complex as the Linux kernel.

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(With the G pronounced like giraffe and not Gifford)

For example: what the heck is “SLUB”? That could just as easily stand for “Statically Linked Universal Binary”.

You gotta say it like Pauly Shore:

Silly Linux User, Buuudy!

[Delgarde]

I'm with you there. I really wish we'd get out of the legacy naming conventions. While it made sense due to the technological limitations of their times, it makes no sense to stick to those kinds of names when those limitations no longer exist.

Yeah, it's a policy I've insisted on for new code at work — abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms are forbidden in source code, aside from a small list that are basically either industry terms or so well established as to be unavoidable. With modern tooling, there are few disadvantages in using longer names, and they're very much outweighed by the benefits of having greater consistency, and less ambiguity over the same TLA used with different meanings in different parts of the code.

[uxmkt]

There are 255 ASCII characters to express whatever there is!

Bullshit. ASCII specifies 128 codepoints, and out of practical considerations, control codes are generally not used. So we're closer to 95.

[avis]

Bullshit. ASCII specifies 128 codepoints, and out of practical considerations, control codes are generally not used. So we're closer to 95.

I meant filename length limit, not the range of characters.