[RFC] KConfig API stuff

[Matthew Woehlke]

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 11:58:58AM -0500, Thomas Braxton wrote:
>>> - rename kconfiggroup::clean back to to rollback.
>>>   - rationale: whoever renamed it had no idea of database terminology
>> you're right I don't know database terminology, but I know enough to know
>> that to rollback a db means to return to some previous state, which this
>> doesn't do. That's why I thought the name should be changed, to reflect what
>> it actually does and not pretend it does more.
>>
> hmm, you're right, it doesn't really do a rollback (it doesn't re-read
> the entries). however, "clean" is as undescriptive as it gets. "undirty"
> sounds weird, but immediately rings a bell with anybody who knows
> something about writeback semantics. deal?

"discardDirtyEntries"? (I'm just guessing at what it does from this 
conversation, though, but it seems something better than "undirty" can 
be thought up :-).)

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Matthew
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