From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: "J. Dow" <jdow@earthlink.net>
Cc: Ruth Ivimey-Cook <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.19pre7aa1
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:09:45 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020421000945.GC26727@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0204202310360.21635-100000@sharra.ivimey.org> <0d6901c1e8be$acfe6cf0$1125a8c0@wednesday>
> "Flush" is a well known term of art. And as you note, Ruth, "sync" is
> short for synchronize. Is cleaning up the use of language in the computer
> arts the purpose we are all here?
Andrew makes a good point, even if the humour around it is lost on
Americans. Most people do not understand flush_dcache_page,
flush_icache_page, flush_icache_range, flush_page_to_ram.
Perhaps invalidate_icache_* and writeback_dcache_* would make more sense
but the current functions are so ingrained it would be a hard thing to do.
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-21 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-20 17:42 2.4.19pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-20 19:37 ` 2.4.19pre7aa1 Andrew Morton
2002-04-20 21:38 ` 2.4.19pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-20 22:12 ` 2.4.19pre7aa1 Ruth Ivimey-Cook
2002-04-20 22:56 ` 2.4.19pre7aa1 J. Dow
2002-04-21 0:09 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2002-04-20 23:57 ` 2.4.19pre7aa1 Anton Blanchard
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