From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] tools/vm: rename tools/vm to tools/mm
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:36:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <atYOvqkdVSgjXZVM@stanley.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230103180754.129637-4-sj@kernel.org>
On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 06:07:52PM +0000, SeongJae Park wrote:
> Rename tools/vm to tools/mm for being more consistent with the code and
> documentation directories, and won't be confused with virtual machines.
>
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst | 4 ++--
> Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/mm/slub.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/translations/zh_CN/mm/page_owner.rst | 2 +-
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> mm/Kconfig.debug | 2 +-
> mm/memory-failure.c | 2 +-
> tools/{vm => mm}/.gitignore | 0
> tools/{vm => mm}/Makefile | 0
> tools/{vm => mm}/page-types.c | 0
> tools/{vm => mm}/page_owner_sort.c | 0
> tools/{vm => mm}/slabinfo-gnuplot.sh | 0
> tools/{vm => mm}/slabinfo.c | 0
> 14 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> rename tools/{vm => mm}/.gitignore (100%)
> rename tools/{vm => mm}/Makefile (100%)
> rename tools/{vm => mm}/page-types.c (100%)
> rename tools/{vm => mm}/page_owner_sort.c (100%)
> rename tools/{vm => mm}/slabinfo-gnuplot.sh (100%)
> rename tools/{vm => mm}/slabinfo.c (100%)
Is there a reason we left the tools/vm directory even though
it's empy? Is it for backwards compatability or something?
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-19 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-03 18:07 SeongJae Park
2023-01-03 18:07 ` [PATCH 1/5] MAINTAINERS: add types to akpm/mm git trees entries SeongJae Park
2023-01-03 18:07 ` [PATCH 2/5] MAINTAINERS/MEMORY MANAGEMENT: Add tools/vm/ as managed files SeongJae Park
2023-01-03 18:07 ` [PATCH 3/5] tools/vm: rename tools/vm to tools/mm SeongJae Park
2026-10-19 12:36 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2026-10-19 13:53 ` SJ Park
2026-10-19 14:56 ` Dan Carpenter
2023-01-03 18:07 ` [PATCH 4/5] selftests/vm: rename selftets/vm to selftests/mm SeongJae Park
2023-01-03 18:07 ` [PATCH 5/5] Docs/admin-guide/mm/numaperf: increase depth of subsections SeongJae Park
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