From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751391AbVKOI6L (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:58:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751396AbVKOI6K (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:58:10 -0500 Received: from smtp017.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.114]:57231 "HELO smtp017.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751392AbVKOI6J (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:58:09 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=udOiD/1yVfvXgR1n/l1CRoH6POR5DpuR/0irqHB2x/qyKunQVwA3pBkS2006hUugCyJ6xeUoqN+ZxT83Hc2Kr6/VoBfBHN8jRCnHjFmVmsaiW7aysBnYpKhZxOHRb2pQQTdTG0LsmzwNNCthIC+MebKVJT9wQ9kP2ogB4mgpsNY= ; Message-ID: <4379A399.1080407@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:00:09 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Jackson CC: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Simon Derr , Christoph Lameter , "Rohit, Seth" Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/05] mm rationalize __alloc_pages ALLOC_* flag names References: <20051114040329.13951.39891.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <20051114040353.13951.82602.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20051114040353.13951.82602.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Jackson wrote: > Rationalize mm/page_alloc.c:__alloc_pages() ALLOC flag names. > I don't really see the need for this. The names aren't clearly better, and the downside is that they move away from the terminlogy we've been using in the page allocator for the past few years. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com