From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:37:24 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] Revert "hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl" Message-ID: <20071213173724.GD31637@holomorphy.com> References: <20071213074156.GA17526@us.ibm.com> <20071213074259.GB17526@us.ibm.com> <20071213085346.GC31637@holomorphy.com> <20071213164727.GD17526@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071213164727.GD17526@us.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: agl@us.ibm.com, mel@csn.ul.ie, apw@shadowen.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, lee.schermerhorn@hp.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On 13.12.2007 [00:53:46 -0800], William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> This is recent enough that dependencies shouldn't have developed, but >> it'd be nice to stage user-visible API/ABI changes more consciously >> and carefully in the future. Or at least we should try to avoid the >> sorts of situations where we end up changing recently introduced >> user/kernel ABI's and API's shortly after merging. We'll run the risk >> of getting stuck with a user/kernel ABI we can't abandon for years on >> account of not fixing it up before dependencies develop if this >> happens too often. On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:47:27AM -0800, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > I agree and I apologize if I'm making things hard for everyone. However, > I hadn't fully considered the implications of the dynamic pool for my > other patches. The patches moved from -mm to -linus rather quickly, > iirc. No excuse, however, I should have been paying more attention. > If folks really don't want things to change, I guess we could also just > make the sysctl's per-node corresponding attribute be a boolean too. It > just seems less flexible than this approach. I'm fine with this getting changed over since we've not spanned a point release with the old nomenclature. If we had spanned a point release there would be trouble. I've no particular preference about old vs. new nomenclature apart from following user/kernel ABI/API stability rules. -- wli -- 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