From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751388AbVKOJSq (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:18:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751392AbVKOJSq (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:18:46 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:62432 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751388AbVKOJSq (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:18:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:18:32 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Nick Piggin Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Simon.Derr@bull.net, clameter@sgi.com, rohit.seth@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/05] mm rationalize __alloc_pages ALLOC_* flag names Message-Id: <20051115011832.712d03c8.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <4379A399.1080407@yahoo.com.au> References: <20051114040329.13951.39891.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <20051114040353.13951.82602.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <4379A399.1080407@yahoo.com.au> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.4.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick wrote: > the downside is that they move away > from the terminlogy we've been using in the page allocator > for the past few years. I was trying to make the names more readable for the rest of us ;). In the short term, there is seldom a reason to change names, as it impacts the current experts more than it helps others. Over a sufficiently long term, everyone is an 'other'. Most of the people who will have reason to want to understand this code over the next five years are not experts in it now. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401