Hi! > >>> And if Michal doesn't want to touch this patch any more, I'm happy to > >>> do the search/replace/resend. :P > >> > >> Something with the prefix MAP_FIXED_ seems to me obviously desirable, > >> both to suggest that the function is similar, and also for easy > >> grepping of the source code to look for instances of both. > >> MAP_FIXED_SAFE didn't really bother me as a name, but > >> MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE (or MAP_FIXED_NOCLOBBER) seem slightly more > >> descriptive of what the flag actually does, so a little better. > > > > Great, thanks! > > > > Andrew, can you s/MAP_FIXED_SAFE/MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE/g in the series? > > This seems to have not happened. Presumably Andrew just missed the mail > in the flood. And will probably miss this one too ... :) Nice way to mess up kernel development, Michal. Thank you! :-(. Andrew, everyone and their dog agrees MAP_FIXED_SAFE is stupid name, but Michal decided to just go ahead, ignoring feedback... Can you either s/MAP_FIXED_SAFE/MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE/g or drop the patches? Thanks, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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