Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.13 v2 2/2] docs: Replace all instance of ARM by Arm

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Stefano,

On 10/2/19 2:05 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Julien Grall wrote:
> > The documentation is using a mix of ARM (old) and Arm (new). To stay
> > consistent, use only the new name.
> Thank you for the patch, it must have been "not fun" to write this
> patch.
>
> However, let me suggest a radical maybe controversial idea. What about
> keeping "ARM" instead of switching? There are several advantages: it is
> easier to grep, no need to worry about case-sensitivity. 
> It is what
> people are used to, and what still use (in my experience at conference
> and at work.) Would it make sense to ignore Arm's marketing and keep the
> old "ARM" nomenclature?
Pretty much all the new documentation on Arm website are now using Arm 
(the spec is now called Arm Arm).
> If not, I'd suggest to also replace "arm" with "Arm" so that at least
> with have consistent cases everywhere. But then the pathnames would
> remain xen/arch/arm, leading to sentences such as:
>
>   (non-zImage)" protocol described in arm/Booting.
>    
>   There are no exception on 64-bit Arm.
> With "arm" and "ARM" the distinction was clear between pathnames and
> text (at least to me.) With "arm" and "Arm", I know it is silly but it
> kind of bothers me :-)
How do you deal with Xilinx then? ;)

> I am not going to insist on this one though.
This is quite similar to a company renaming itself (or got acquired and 
the name completely disappear) but in a less radical way. Would you 
still keep the old name company in your documentation and/or mixing the 
both?
Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

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