linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON

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Message-Id: <20160713141343.244c108e48086055f57b1d79@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:13:43 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:37:01 +0100 Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net> wrote:

> > I don't care strongly enough to cause a respin of half the series, and
> > it's not your problem that I waited until the last revision went into
> > mmots to review and comment. But if you agreed to a revert, would you
> > consider tacking on a revert patch at the end of the series?
> > 
> 
> In this case, I'm going to ask the other people on the cc for a
> tie-breaker. If someone else prefers the old names then I'm happy for
> your patch to be applied on top with my ack instead of respinning the
> whole series.
> 
> Anyone for a tie breaker?

I am aggressively undecided.  I guess as it's a bit of a 51/49
situation, the "stay with what people are familiar with" benefit tips the
balance toward the legacy names?