From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:55:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] hugetlb: pagetable_operations API (V2) In-Reply-To: <20070319200502.17168.17175.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20070319200502.17168.17175.stgit@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Adam Litke Cc: Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , William Lee Irwin III , Christoph Hellwig , Ken Chen , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Adam Litke wrote: > Andrew, given the favorable review of these patches the last time around, would > you consider them for the -mm tree? Does anyone else have any objections? I quite fail to understand the enthusiasm for these patches. All they do is make the already ugly interfaces to hugetlb more obscure than at present, and open the door to even uglier stuff later. Don't you need to wait for at least one other user of these interfaces to emerge, to get a better idea of whether they're appropriate? Hugh -- 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