Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 19:54, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 05 2009, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>>> +static struct queue_sysfs_entry queue_nonrot_entry = {
>>>> + .attr = {.name = "nonrot", .mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR },
>>>> + .show = queue_nonrot_show,
>>>> + .store = queue_nonrot_store,
>>>> +};
>>>> +
>>> Lets please use a better name for export reasons, non-rotational is a
>>> lot better. Nobody will know what nonrot means :-)
>> What's that negation good for? Can't we just have "rotational", like
>> we have "removable" and not "non-removable"? :)
>
> Non-rotational is the term typically used, since rotational is the norm
> (still). So I think the negation actually makes sense in this case :-)
You used the word "still" yourself. I mean, in 5 years SSD will be more
common than rotational media, and "the norm" will be !rotational..
So let's name them correctly and uniformly from the beginning.. ;)
/mjt
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