On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, David Rientjes wrote: > > Great! So, why not letting the time tell us if this feature will be obsoleted > > or not? I'd rather have this patch obsoleted by another one proven better, than > > just stay still waiting for something that might, or might not, happen in the > > future. > > Because (1) you're adding a sysctl that we don't want to obsolete and > remove from the kernel that someone will come to depend on and then have > to find an alternative solution like /dev/mem_notify, and (2) people parse > messages like this that are emitted to the kernel log that we don't want > to break in the future. > > So NACK on this approach. Right. We should drop the sysctl and make it into a kernel command line debugging option instead. Pekka -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>