On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 02:30:05PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> To prepare for the addition of support for MADT wakeup structure version
"In order to support... "
> 1, it is necessary to provide more appropriate names for the fields in
> the structure.
>
> The field 'mailbox_version' renamed as 'version'. This field signifies
>From Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:
"Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz"
instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy
to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change
its behaviour."
So:
"Rename 'mailbox_version' to 'version' because... "
> the version of the structure and the related protocols, rather than the
> version of the mailbox. This field has not been utilized in the code
> thus far.
>
> The field 'base_address' renamed as 'mailbox_address' to clarify the
Ditto.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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