Re: LMB bits

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* Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 09:24, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> So I've pushed the memblocks rename and the modified version of my patches
> >> that Yinghai produced in the "memblock" branch of the powerpc.git tree,
> >> based on top of current Linus tree.
> 
> > to Linus straight away - to get the big rename out of the way:
> >
> > ??74 files changed, 1039 insertions(+), 1039 deletions(-)
> 
> Seems I have missed that part of the discussion: why is lmb renamed?

The reason is to make it more apparent at first glance what it is all about, 
to reduce the pool of silly abbreviations that only mean something to those 
deeply involved with that code.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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