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Subject: Re: [PATCH] change name of rep_nop 
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
   Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 00:42:04 +0100

   But x86 isn't particularly interesting - it'd be useful to have a 
   flush_dcache_range() which actually works across other architectures anyway.
   
The memory technology device case is weird, give it a solution
such as "asm/memdev.h".

   > Regardless, the purpose of the cachetlb.txt interfaces is for the
   > generic VM subsystem of the kernel.  Nothing more. 
   
   So they should probably have less misleading names, perchance including the
   letter 'v' and the letter 'm' somewhere? And they should _certainly_ have
   less misleading documentation. :)

Why?  find_get_page says nothing about "page cache", but people
understand that is what it is used for.

The documention should be more specific, thats all.

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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