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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: frival@zk3.dec.com, paulus@samba.org, Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, torvalds@transmeta.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jay.estabrook@compaq.com,
rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change name of rep_nop
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 16:46:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011008.164629.88474756.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15384.1002584524@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <13962.1002580586@redhat.com> <14658.1002582388@redhat.com> <15384.1002584524@redhat.com>
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 00:42:04 +0100
But x86 isn't particularly interesting - it'd be useful to have a
flush_dcache_range() which actually works across other architectures anyway.
The memory technology device case is weird, give it a solution
such as "asm/memdev.h".
> Regardless, the purpose of the cachetlb.txt interfaces is for the
> generic VM subsystem of the kernel. Nothing more.
So they should probably have less misleading names, perchance including the
letter 'v' and the letter 'm' somewhere? And they should _certainly_ have
less misleading documentation. :)
Why? find_get_page says nothing about "page cache", but people
understand that is what it is used for.
The documention should be more specific, thats all.
Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-08 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-05 10:46 Paul Mackerras
2001-10-05 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-05 18:06 ` Peter Rival
2001-10-05 23:28 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-05 23:54 ` Martin J. Bligh
2001-10-06 1:40 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-08 19:27 ` Peter Rival
2001-10-08 22:36 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-08 22:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 23:06 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-08 23:42 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-08 23:46 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-10-08 23:08 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-08 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-09 0:03 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-08 22:46 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-08 23:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 23:24 ` Dave Jones
2001-10-08 23:33 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-09 5:01 ` George Greer
2001-10-08 23:30 ` David S. Miller
2001-10-09 10:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-09 11:30 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-09 12:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-09 12:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-09 8:51 Etienne Lorrain
2001-10-09 11:30 ` Alan Cox
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