From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LMB bits
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:51:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100709135117.GA4602@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikAb5UeOLmcZaHWfKEUkwgrE4sNMinkGHxxMdTl@mail.gmail.com>
* Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 09:24, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > * Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> >> So I've pushed the memblocks rename and the modified version of my patches
> >> that Yinghai produced in the "memblock" branch of the powerpc.git tree,
> >> based on top of current Linus tree.
>
> > to Linus straight away - to get the big rename out of the way:
> >
> > ??74 files changed, 1039 insertions(+), 1039 deletions(-)
>
> Seems I have missed that part of the discussion: why is lmb renamed?
The reason is to make it more apparent at first glance what it is all about,
to reduce the pool of silly abbreviations that only mean something to those
deeply involved with that code.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-09 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1278031351-23223-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org>
2010-07-09 7:11 ` LMB bits Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-09 7:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-07-09 7:28 ` David Miller
2010-07-09 7:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-07-09 8:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-07-09 13:51 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-07-10 0:20 ` David Miller
2010-07-10 3:55 ` David Miller
2010-07-10 11:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-10 20:14 ` David Miller
2010-07-10 20:53 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-07-12 3:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-12 7:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-12 22:34 ` David Miller
2010-07-13 7:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-07-13 8:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-07-13 15:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-13 16:45 ` David Miller
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