[systemd-devel] [PATCH] bootchart: use conf-parser & CamelCase names in .conf

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 13.02.13 12:20, Kok, Auke-jan H (auke-jan.h.kok at intel.com) wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 13.02.13 20:24, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen (phomes at gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> >> +[Bootchart]
> >> +#Samples=500
> >> +#Freq=25
> >> +#Rel=0
> >> +#Filter=1
> >> +#Output=<folder name, defaults to /var/log>
> 
> This has changed to /run/log being the default with Harald's patch I
> merged yesterday.
> 
> >> +#Init=/path/to/init-binary
> >> +#Pss=0
> >
> > Hmm, so in systemd so far we tried to avoid abbreviations like this in
> > exported identifiers. So I'd really prefer if we could use "Frequency"
> > instead of "Freq" here. Abbreviations and acronyms raise the bar for
> > newcomers.
> 
> agreed, as part of this conversion we should just rename these options
> to Frequency, Relative.
> 
> > It's not to say we'd never export abbreviations/acronyms anywhere in
> > systemd, but if we do, then they must be very very well established...
> 
> Pss, is still an acronym, but Let's keep it that way.

Hmm, what does this stand for? Wikipedia doesn't have it, can't be that
well known...

Also, if it's an acronym it should probably be PSS not Pss...

Lennart

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