From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
randy.dunlap@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 19:06:11 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705231904480.3890@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070524014803.GB22998@wotan.suse.de>
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> I won't do this. I'll keep calling it fault, because a) it means we keep
> the backwards compatible ->nopage path until all drivers are converted,
> and b) the page_mkwrite conversion really will make "nopage" the wrong
> name.
I won't _take_ the patch unless you convert all drivers.
I refuse to have more of these "deprecated" crap. We don't do that. The
code is just ugly. The warnings are horrible, and if they don't exist, the
thing never gets fixed.
Just make a clean break. If you want to rename it, rename it. But don't do
some bogus "we'll do *both*" crap.
Linus
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-24 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-18 7:37 akpm, Nick Piggin
2007-05-18 10:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-18 15:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-19 1:38 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-22 15:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-23 1:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-23 8:35 ` David Chinner
2007-05-23 9:35 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 2:57 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-23 23:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-24 1:48 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-24 2:06 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-05-24 2:24 ` Nick Piggin
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