[PATCH v2 20/37] kasan: rename tags.c to tags_sw.c
Alexander Potapenko
glider at google.com
Fri Sep 18 05:41:43 EDT 2020
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:17 PM Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com> wrote:
>
> This is a preparatory commit for the upcoming addition of a new hardware
> tag-based (MTE-based) KASAN mode.
>
> Hardware tag-based KASAN will also be using tag-based approach, so rename
> tags.c to tags_sw.c and report_tags.c to report_tags_sw.c to avoid
> confusion once the new mode is added
I find it a bit excessive renaming the same file twice in the same
patch series (tags_report.c -> report_tags.c -> report_tags_sw.c)
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