Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:27:20 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A question about terminology.
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Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> Hi again.
> 
> When I began work on swapfile support, I looked for an efficient method
> to store all the information on which blocks were used. The process led
> me to develop something I called ranges, which Pavel later looked at and
> said something like 'Oh. Extents.'
> 
> Throughout the code, I still call them ranges (I have, for example
> struct range and struct rangechain). In preparation for merging, should
> I go through an rename ranges to extents, or will they be okay as it is?

Are you aware of the current `struct swap_extent' and its supporting
infrastructure?

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