Re: address@hidden: Bug#172662: libparted1.6-0: please don't call sgi disklabels mips disklabels]

[Andrew Clausen]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:05:08AM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> Hi,
> calling the SGI disklabels mips disklabels is incorrect since only SGI
> based mips machines use these disklabels (no other mips based machines
> use this kind of disklabels - and there are lots of them). Better names
> would be either Irix or SGI disklabels (fdisk uses both names). Attached
> patch changes the name in the package descriptions to SGI and in
> libparted itself to 'sgi-mips'.  Any chance to change the name?
> Regards,
>  -- Guido

Ralf told me that MIPS (the company?) created the format... that was
the rationale.  I guess SGI is probably a more user-friendly name?

Ralf: what do you think?

Cheers,
Andrew