[RFC 4/4] powerpc/mm: Rename global tracker for virtual to physical mapping

Anshuman Khandual khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Feb 19 22:02:30 AEDT 2016


On 02/19/2016 04:00 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 10:24 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> > On 02/18/2016 08:07 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>> > > On Wed, 2016-02-17 at 17:42 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>> > > 
>>>> > > > This renames the global list which tracks all the virtual to physical
>>>> > > > mapping and also the global list which tracks all the available unused
>>>> > > > vmemmap_hw_map node structures.
>>> > > 
>>> > > But why? Why are the new names *so* much better that we would want to go
>>> > > through all this churn?
>> > 
>> > Hmm, okay. Its kind of subjective but then its upto you.
> Yeah it is of course. I'm not saying your names aren't better, but they're not
> obviously better to me, and so it's a lot of code churn for not much benefit
> IMHO.
> 
> But you can try and convince me if you really feel strongly about it.

Agreed, its not worth the churn. Thanks !



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