On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:12:56AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > I'm not tied to the 'undwarf' name, other naming ideas are welcome. > > > > Ha, a new bike shed painting job! ;-) > > > > I think 'undwarf' isn't a bad name, it's short, catchy and describes the purpose > > of the effort. > > > > But I cannot resist some other suggestions, after 'elf' and 'dwarf' the obvious > > candidates from the peoples of Middle-earth would be: > > > > - 'Hobbit' > > - 'Eagle' > > - 'Ent' > > - 'Dragon' > > - 'Troll' > > - 'Ainur' > > > > 'struct troll_entry' has a certain charm to it. > > > > 'Eagle' is even nicer IMHO: larger than a dwarf but so much faster - and eagles > > are beautiful! Plus the name is 2 letters shorter than 'unwdwarf', win-win. > > Finally, we get to the important part ;-) > > Thus far I've been partial to undwarf, and I haven't been able to shake > it. > > But I like some of your suggestions. Especially troll and hobbit. Will > need to do some more deep thinking about it :-) After doing some research (i.e., skimming the "Middle-earth peoples" article on Wikipedia), my favorite is "Orc". I don't have a reason other than the fact that "orc unwinder" sounds badass. And it's short. And also, orcs are enemies of dwarves :-) I did like the symbolism of "Eagle", but unfortunately our own universe also has eagles, which diminishes down the word's Tolkien and Germanic mythology connotations. And I think we can all agree that such connotations are extremely important for an unwinder data format. That said, while I like "orc", I also still like "undwarf", since I've been staring at that name for a few months, and as you said, it does describe its purpose. So I'm leaning towards either "orc" or "undwarf". -- Josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe live-patching" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
