Re: known bad patch in -mm tree was Re: [PATCH 2/2] mmap.2: MAP_FIXED updated documentation
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Date: 2017-12-21 15:08:53
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On Thu 21-12-17 15:59:07, Pavel Machek wrote:
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And if Michal doesn't want to touch this patch any more, I'm happy to do the search/replace/resend. :PSomething with the prefix MAP_FIXED_ seems to me obviously desirable, both to suggest that the function is similar, and also for easy grepping of the source code to look for instances of both. MAP_FIXED_SAFE didn't really bother me as a name, but MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE (or MAP_FIXED_NOCLOBBER) seem slightly more descriptive of what the flag actually does, so a little better.Great, thanks! Andrew, can you s/MAP_FIXED_SAFE/MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE/g in the series?This seems to have not happened. Presumably Andrew just missed the mail in the flood. And will probably miss this one too ... :)Nice way to mess up kernel development, Michal. Thank you! :-(.
Thank you for your valuable feedback! Maybe you have noticed that I haven't enforced the patch and led others to decide the final name (either by resubmitting patches or a simple replace in mmotm tree). Or maybe you haven't because you are so busy bikesheding that you can hardly see anything else.
Andrew, everyone and their dog agrees MAP_FIXED_SAFE is stupid name, but Michal decided to just go ahead, ignoring feedback... Can you either s/MAP_FIXED_SAFE/MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE/g or drop the patches?
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