From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:18:32 -0800 From: Paul Jackson Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/05] mm rationalize __alloc_pages ALLOC_* flag names Message-Id: <20051115011832.712d03c8.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <4379A399.1080407@yahoo.com.au> References: <20051114040329.13951.39891.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <20051114040353.13951.82602.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <4379A399.1080407@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Simon.Derr@bull.net, clameter@sgi.com, rohit.seth@intel.com List-ID: Nick wrote: > the downside is that they move away > from the terminlogy we've been using in the page allocator > for the past few years. I was trying to make the names more readable for the rest of us ;). In the short term, there is seldom a reason to change names, as it impacts the current experts more than it helps others. Over a sufficiently long term, everyone is an 'other'. Most of the people who will have reason to want to understand this code over the next five years are not experts in it now. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org