Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:55:08 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
        Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, davidlohr@hp.com,
        isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, yinghai@kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] hugetlb: add hugepages_node= command-line option
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> But, like I said, I'm not sure we'd ever be able to totally remove it 
> because of backwards compatibility, but the point is that nobody would 
> have to use it anymore as a hack for 1GB.

Again it's a perfectly fine and widely used interface. Any talk of removing
it is wrong.

-Andi
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