>>> On 05.02.18 at 13:22, <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 05/02/18 08:57, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 02.02.18 at 17:58, <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote:
>>> To match all our other emulation handling.
>>>
>>> No functional change.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
>>> ---
>>> CC: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
>>> ---
>>>  xen/arch/x86/pv/Makefile                                  | 2 +-
>>>  xen/arch/x86/pv/{ro-page-fault.c => emul-ro-page-fault.c} | 2 +-
>>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>  rename xen/arch/x86/pv/{ro-page-fault.c => emul-ro-page-fault.c} (99%)
>> When this file was introduced, iirc I had specifically asked to drop
>> the pointless emul- prefix. If you want to make things consistent
>> again, please instead drop the emul- prefixes of the other files.
> 
> No.
> 
> First of all, this file is the most recent to come into existence,
> around 3 months after the others.

Right - it was too late for me to realize the needlessly long names
in those earlier code movement patches.

> The point of naming things in a consistent fashion is for the benefit of
> humans, and having the emulation related functionality logically grouped
> is a benefit, not a detriment.

They're all quite well grouped now already by being in pv/. Otherwise
do you mean to also change e.g. gpr_switch.S to emul-gpr_switch.S?

Besides the plain cosmetic aspect, shell command completion is of
more use when there aren't many files with similar prefixes in a single
directory.

Jan


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