OK. My personal preference is for a more descriptive name (at least
when the name isn't something that has to be typed -- shortness trumps
when names get typed often, as in NIC driver names), but it doesn't
really matter that much.
-- Garrett
Eric Sultan wrote:
> No, as with other graphics devices there is no particular mnemonic
> significance to the name. A longer, more descriptive, name could have
> been chosen, though shorter names are more friendly when you have to
> type them.
>
> efb was selected because:
>
> - It doesn't collide with anything we could find
> - It follows our general protocol of naming framebuffers as
> <something>fb
> - It's the first suitable letter in the alphabet that follows the .fb
> format
>
> We tried to consider longer names that might have more descriptive
> significance but hadn't found one that resonated, and we expect that
> users will at times reference the device by this name and so, other
> things being equal, shorter is better.
>
> Any rumor that efb is "eric's framebuffer" is just that: rumor.
>
> -- Eric
>
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> Eric Sultan wrote:
>>> It has been pointed out that VNC uses a remote framebuffer protocol
>>> named "rfb", and that the name might therefore not be a good choice
>>> for the Xorg-compliant driver for the XVR-50, -100, and -300.
>>>
>>> Accordingly, the project team has agreed to use a new name, efb, for
>>> this project.
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, is there any mnemonic for efb? And, is there
>> any compelling reason why only three characters are chosen for the
>> name? (I would have expected that in new-style Xorg that users have
>> little, if any, reason to be exposed to the names of the framebuffer
>> drivers.... hence a longer and more descriptive -- and perhaps less
>> likely to collide -- name seems like it might have been a good choice.)
>>
>> (No, I'm not asking the project to change their name, just pointing
>> out that if they wanted to pick a longer and more descriptive name,
>> that I think they *could* have.)
>>
>> -- Garrett
>>
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