Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED

From	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED
Date	2016-07-16 00:40 +0200
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:46:05 +0100 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 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 <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 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.

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Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2016-07-12 17:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-07-13 11:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2016-07-13 15:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-07-13 15:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-07-13 23:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-07-15 12:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-07-16 00:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2016-07-18 15:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2016-07-14 03:30 +0200

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