From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Confusing olddefault prompt for Z3FOLD
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:31:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160427123139.GA2230@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9459.1461686910@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Tue 26-04-16 12:08:30, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> Saw this duplicate prompt text in today's linux-next in a 'make oldconfig':
>
> Low density storage for compressed pages (ZBUD) [Y/n/m/?] y
> Low density storage for compressed pages (Z3FOLD) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) ?
>
> I had to read the help texts for both before I clued in that one used
> two compressed pages, and the other used 3.
>
> And 'make oldconfig' doesn't have a "Wait, what?" option to go back
> to a previous prompt....
>
> (Change Z3FOLD prompt to "New low density" or something? )
Or even better can we only a single one rather than 2 algorithms doing
the similar thing? I wasn't following this closely but what is the
difference to have them both?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-27 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-26 16:08 Confusing olddefault prompt for Z3FOLD Valdis Kletnieks
2016-04-27 12:31 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-04-28 11:35 ` Vitaly Wool
2016-04-28 11:58 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-28 19:40 ` Vitaly Wool
2016-04-29 12:17 ` Michal Hocko
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