From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Daniel Spang <daniel.spang@gmail.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/5] add /dev/mem_notify device
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:42:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080116114234.GA22460@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080116041332.GA30877@dmt>
On Wed 2008-01-16 02:13:32, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:57:16AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > Hi Pavel
> >
> > > > err = poll(&pollfds, 1, -1); // wake up at low memory
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > > </usage example>
> > >
> > > Nice, this is really needed for openmoko, zaurus, etc....
> > >
> > > But this changelog needs to go into Documentation/...
> > >
> > > ...and /dev/mem_notify is really a bad name. /dev/memory_low?
> > > /dev/oom?
> >
> > thank you for your kindful advise.
> >
> > but..
> >
> > to be honest, my english is very limited.
> > I can't make judgments name is good or not.
> >
> > Marcelo, What do you think his idea?
>
> "mem_notify" sounds alright, but I don't really care.
>
> Notify:
>
> To give notice to; inform: notified the citizens of the curfew by
> posting signs.
I'd read mem_notify as "tell me when new memory is unplugged" or
something. /dev/oom_notify? Plus, /dev/ names usually do not have "_"
in them.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-16 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-15 0:52 [RFC][PATCH 0/5] mem notifications v4 KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 0:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/5] introduce poll_wait_exclusive() new API KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 1:00 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/5] introduce wake_up_locked_nr() " KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 1:01 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/5] add /dev/mem_notify device KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 1:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-15 1:20 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 1:24 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 2:10 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-01-15 2:20 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 2:56 ` Rik van Riel
2008-01-15 10:46 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-15 10:59 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 11:20 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-15 11:48 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 13:42 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-16 2:43 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 12:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-01-15 13:42 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-15 22:16 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-16 1:57 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-16 4:13 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-01-16 11:42 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-01-16 11:51 ` Daniel Spång
2008-01-17 3:04 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 1:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/5] memory_pressure_notify() caller KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 2:06 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-01-15 2:37 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 3:00 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-01-15 3:08 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 22:55 ` Daniel Spång
2008-01-15 22:59 ` Rik van Riel
2008-01-15 23:39 ` Daniel Spång
2008-01-16 1:48 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-16 11:03 ` Daniel Spång
2008-01-17 3:26 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-18 10:24 ` Daniel Spång
2008-01-18 10:30 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 1:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/5] /proc/zoneinfo enhancement KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-01-15 10:44 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-15 10:49 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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