From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751866AbcGOWf7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:35:59 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38767 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751821AbcGOWf4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:35:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:35:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner , Linux-MM , Rik van Riel , Vlastimil Babka , Minchan Kim , Joonsoo Kim , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Message-Id: <20160715153554.f9d12360e31441b720d6a6b1@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160715104605.GO9806@techsingularity.net> References: <1467970510-21195-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> <1467970510-21195-19-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> <20160712145801.GJ5881@cmpxchg.org> <20160713085516.GI9806@techsingularity.net> <20160713130415.GB9905@cmpxchg.org> <20160713133701.GK9806@techsingularity.net> <20160713141343.244c108e48086055f57b1d79@linux-foundation.org> <20160715104605.GO9806@techsingularity.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-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 List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:46:05 +0100 Mel Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 02:13:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:37:01 +0100 Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > > > I don't care strongly enough to cause a respin of half the series, and > > > > it's not your problem that I waited until the last revision went into > > > > mmots to review and comment. But if you agreed to a revert, would you > > > > consider tacking on a revert patch at the end of the series? > > > > > > > > > > In this case, I'm going to ask the other people on the cc for a > > > tie-breaker. If someone else prefers the old names then I'm happy for > > > your patch to be applied on top with my ack instead of respinning the > > > whole series. > > > > > > Anyone for a tie breaker? > > > > I am aggressively undecided. I guess as it's a bit of a 51/49 > > situation, the "stay with what people are familiar with" benefit tips the > > balance toward the legacy names? > > > > I still can't decide. It's currently still a draw in terms of naming. If > you're worried, use the old naming. It wouldn't be the first time I > thought a name was odd. Well I dunno. We can leave the series as-is for now and we can merge the rename-it-back patch sometime during the next -rc cycle if we find that people are running around in confusion and tumbling out of high windows.