From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename PageChecked as PageMiscFS
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:29:46 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508121329.46533.phillips@istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26569.1123752390@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Thursday 11 August 2005 19:26, David Howells wrote:
> Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> wrote:
> > + SetPageMiscFS(page);
>
> Can you please retain the *PageFsMisc names I've been using in my stuff?
>
> In my opinion putting the "Fs" bit first gives a clearer indication that
> this is a bit exclusively for the use of filesystems in general.
You also achieved some sort of new low point in the abuse of StudlyCaps there.
Please, let's not get started on mixed case acronyms.
Anyway, it sounds like you want to bless the use of private page flags in
filesystems. That is most probably a bad idea. Take a browse through the
existing users and feast your eyes on the spectacular lack of elegance.
Regards,
Daniel
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Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-07 3:28 [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved Nick Piggin
2005-08-07 3:29 ` [patch 1/2] mm: remap ZERO_PAGE mappings Nick Piggin
2005-08-07 3:30 ` [patch 2/2] mm: core remove PageReserved Nick Piggin
2005-08-08 21:09 ` [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-08 21:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-08 21:54 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-09 23:23 ` [RFC][PATCH] Rename PageChecked as PageMiscFS Daniel Phillips
2005-08-10 7:48 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-10 8:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-10 22:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-10 22:23 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-10 22:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-10 22:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-10 23:23 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-08-11 9:42 ` David Howells
2005-08-10 23:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-08-11 9:46 ` David Howells
2005-08-12 2:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-12 12:32 ` David Howells
2005-08-11 9:31 ` David Howells
2005-08-11 9:26 ` David Howells
2005-08-12 3:29 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2005-08-12 12:41 ` David Howells
2005-08-12 13:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-16 13:59 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-18 14:33 ` David Howells
2005-08-18 22:27 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-19 10:04 ` David Howells
2005-08-19 16:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-20 10:45 ` David Howells
2005-08-20 20:21 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-10 13:13 ` [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved David Howells
2005-08-10 13:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-10 14:27 ` David Howells
2005-08-10 23:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-11 10:49 ` David Howells
2005-08-12 19:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-15 13:15 ` David Howells
2005-08-16 1:53 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-16 10:28 ` David Howells
2005-08-09 0:15 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-09 8:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-09 9:49 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-09 19:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-09 19:22 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-10 21:50 ` Pavel Machek
2005-08-10 21:56 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-08-11 10:36 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-08-12 19:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-12 22:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-08-12 23:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-13 7:06 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-08-11 10:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-08-09 11:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-09 14:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-09 14:50 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-09 14:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-09 15:36 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-09 21:27 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-09 19:14 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-09 20:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-09 20:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-09 4:39 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-08-09 4:59 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-09 5:11 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-08-09 5:20 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-09 5:30 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-08-09 7:08 ` Russell King
2005-08-09 8:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-09 9:31 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-09 9:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-09 9:57 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-09 10:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-08-09 8:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-09 9:15 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-09 10:27 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-09 11:15 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-09 13:15 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-09 13:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-08-09 14:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-09 14:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-09 19:49 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-09 9:29 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-09 19:40 ` Russell King
2005-08-09 14:38 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-08-09 19:41 ` Russell King
2005-08-09 20:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-09 21:16 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-08-09 21:51 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-08-10 9:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-08-11 9:09 ` Nick Piggin
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