linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] [-mm patch] Add a prefix "VMCOREINFO

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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:28:29 +0900
From:	"Ken'ichi Ohmichi" <oomichi@....nes.nec.co.jp>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	kexec-ml <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] [-mm patch]  Add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo
 macros.


Hi Andrew,

Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:00:18 +0900 "Ken'ichi Ohmichi" <oomichi@....nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:
> > 
>> >> [4/4] Add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros.
>> >>    Old vmcoreinfo macros were defined as generic names SYMBOL/SIZE/OFFSET
>> >>    /LENGTH/CONFIG, and it is impossible to grep for them. So these names
>> >>    should be changed. This discussion is the following:
>> >>    http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0709.1/0415.html
> > 
> > I already had these patches, except for #4.
> > 
> > Your email client is space-stuffing the patches, so I have to do s/^ / /g
> > to apply them.  Please see
> > http://mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients/Thunderbird and/or the
> > soon-to-be-merged Documentation/email-clients.txt

Sorry for wasting your time.
I changed my thunderbird's setting according to the above site.


> > I plan on folding all of
> > 
> > add-vmcoreinfo.patch
> > add-vmcore-cleanup-the-coding-style-according-to-andrews-comments.patch
> > add-vmcore-add-nodemask_ts-size-and-nr_free_pagess-value-to-vmcoreinfo_data.patch
> > add-vmcore-use-the-existing-ia64_tpa-instead-of-asm-code.patch
> > add-vmcore-add-a-prefix-vmcoreinfo_-to-the-vmcoreinfo-macros.patch
> > 
> > into a single patch for upstream.

Thank you for merging them into linux-2.6.23-rc6-mm1.
Additionally, could you merge the following patches to clean up
add-vmcoreinfo.patch ?

[PATCH 5/4] [-mm patch] Rename macros returning the size.
 The #define SIZE() should be renamed STRUCT_SIZE() since it's always 
 returning the size of the struct with a given name.  This would allow 
 TYPEDEF_SIZE() to simply become SIZE() since it need not be used 
 exclusively for typedefs. This idea is David Rientjes's.
 http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0709.1/1964.html
 
[PATCH 6/4] [-mm patch] use the existing offsetof().
 It is better that offsetof() is used for VMCOREINFO_OFFSET().
 This idea is Joe Perches's.


Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi 

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