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Message-Id: <20090106152123.a4bf1736.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:21:23 -0800 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com> Subject: Re: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans (cc added) On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:57:44 -0500 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 12:43:00AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > generic-swap-sparc-rename-swap-to-swap_ulong.patch > > generic-swap-iphase-rename-swap-to-swap_byte_order.patch > > generic-swap-lib-sortc-rename-swap-to-swap_func.patch > > generic-swap-introduce-global-macro-swapa-b.patch > > generic-swap-ext3-remove-local-swap-macro.patch > > generic-swap-ext4-remove-local-swap-macro.patch > > generic-swap-sched-remove-local-swap-macro.patch > > generic-swap-dcache-use-swap-instead-of-private-do_switch.patch > > > > Add a kernel-wide swap() macro, use it. Merge. > > Hmm, must have missed this when it went to lkml. Having this helper > generic is a good idea, but swap is far too generic for something > in kernel.h as indicated by the various renaming patches. How about > swap_vars? > I thought that swap() was a good name, actually. Sure, it's bold. But we only have one swap() implementation, kernel-wide, forever, right? So what the heck: call it swap()! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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