Re: [PATCH 07/37] lmb: Add lmb_find_area()

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sun May 16 2010 - 20:50:40 EST


On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 16:08 -0700, Yinghai wrote:
> how about
> lmb_reserve_area ==> lmb_reserve_range
> lmb_free_area ==> lmb_free_range

I completely fail to see why you still need those two. They are exactly
the same thing as lmb_reserve() and lmb_free(), just with a slightly
different prototype.

> or leave them that way, later replace them lmb_reserve and lmb_free
> one by one?

Nah, if you have some use of the wrappers to ease the transition from
the existing x86 code, then just make up a couple of inline wrappers
somewhere inside the x86 code. You may not even want to call it
lmb_* at all...

But here, I'll let Thomas and Peter decide what to do, it's really
x86 stuff at this stage. I don't want to see two subtlely different
APIs at the LMB level doing the same thing.

Cheers,
Ben.


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