From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F91900086 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:28:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wpaz17.hot.corp.google.com (wpaz17.hot.corp.google.com [172.24.198.81]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id p3DJSkgG021512 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:28:46 -0700 Received: from pwi3 (pwi3.prod.google.com [10.241.219.3]) by wpaz17.hot.corp.google.com with ESMTP id p3DJSiHG028634 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:28:44 -0700 Received: by pwi3 with SMTP id 3so651544pwi.37 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:28:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:28:42 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/thp: Use conventional format for boolean attributes In-Reply-To: <20110413121925.55493041.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <1300772711.26693.473.camel@localhost> <20110413121925.55493041.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton , Ben Hutchings Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman , Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel , Hugh Dickins On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Andrew Morton wrote: > It's a bit naughty to change the existing interface in 2.6.38.x but the time > window is small and few people will be affected and they were nuts to be > using 2.6.38.0 anyway ;) > > I suppose we could support both the old and new formats for a while, > then retire the old format but I doubt if it's worth it. > > Isn't there some user documentation which needs to be updated to > reflect this change? If not, why not? :) > Indeed there is, in Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt -- only for /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag, though, we lack documentation of debug_cow. Ben, do you have time to update the patch? It sounds like this is 2.6.39 material. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org