Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jul 13 2016 - 17:13:59 EST


On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:37:01 +0100 Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?