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Peter Anvin" , Ard Biesheuvel , Ilias Apalodimas , Saravana Kannan , Arnd Bergmann , Baoquan He , x86@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] kho: rename "scratch" to "bootmem" Message-ID: References: <20260811162642.3504565-1-pratyush@kernel.org> <20260817145231.GA579285-robh@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260817145231.GA579285-robh@kernel.org> X-Rspamd-Server: rspam05 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: AF2DC18000E X-Stat-Signature: d7gopk811uzum4jun5p8xx1p8bsnk7ti X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1786979752-893629 X-HE-Meta: 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 tNhJA3qP bJ5Os8NmrYfQxIg9nuvv5r1+8sIM8Ce4ejYv+qBnU1WvPENeOxu44U9crQMPLsr4VLo5/IRQkbGCySIn77fc6sKr/XZaXJTLYvwkNxexiUNoZcMXw8aPHua/91h255VZIY3LGgC9phZQxploXR1jtwGB0fhLbuwh+wAqErbA9J+kIDEwxrZZbEDDyTEFt8s5FKTwlfyonzZXBd3CxMvWd6tklpD9VRaYNSGGUvGk80ZOk8zI69LtuJ5Y8ZQ0yOtyBXef6GAgTUyurDxnEwAqGktmGOs/fkvVVGdglljJiObQo90HQ+WTZDV+OLzGHLDja+k8wrBiC9w5ARR8= Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 09:52:31AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 10:42:00AM -0400, Gregory Price wrote: > > > > Is there a non-verbiage reason to justify these changes? Living with > > "scratch" seems better than potentially breaking folks. > > I don't think these are the first breaking changes. And if the changes > are fine, then that means more breaking changes are fine, too. So why is > this upstream at all until the design is settled? > Surely we should not break deployments for the sake of renaming something that is very arguably already aptly named? ~Gregory