From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752352AbcD0Mbn (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:31:43 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f66.google.com ([74.125.82.66]:33232 "EHLO mail-wm0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751266AbcD0Mbm (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Apr 2016 08:31:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:31:39 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: Valdis Kletnieks Cc: Vitaly Wool , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: Confusing olddefault prompt for Z3FOLD Message-ID: <20160427123139.GA2230@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <9459.1461686910@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9459.1461686910@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs