Re: [PATCH 1/4] vmalloc: rename local variables vmalloc_start andvmalloc_end

[Tejun Heo]

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
>>   const unsigned long vmalloc_end = vmalloc_end & ~(align - 1);
>>
>> Rename local variables vmalloc_start and vmalloc_end to vm_start and
>> vm_end to avoid the collision.
> 
> Could you keep vmalloc_end and vmalloc_start? vm_start and vm_end may led
> to misinterpretations as start and end of the memory area covered by the
> VM.

Hmmm... yeah, the right thing to do would be either let ia64 use
VMALLOC_END directly as variable name or let it alias an unlikely
symbol like ____vmalloc_end as macro which ends up expanding to a
seemingly normal symbol like vmalloc_end is just rude.  I'll change
ia64 part.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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