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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:13:32 -0200
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/5] add /dev/mem_notify device
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:57:16AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Hi Pavel
> 
> > > 	err = poll(&pollfds, 1, -1); // wake up at low memory
> > > 
> > >         ...
> > > </usage example>
> > 
> > Nice, this is really needed for openmoko, zaurus, etc....
> > 
> > But this changelog needs to go into Documentation/...
> > 
> > ...and /dev/mem_notify is really a bad name. /dev/memory_low?
> > /dev/oom?
> 
> thank you for your kindful advise.
> 
> but..
> 
> to be honest, my english is very limited.
> I can't make judgments name is good or not.
> 
> Marcelo, What do you think his idea?

"mem_notify" sounds alright, but I don't really care.

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