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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:09:45 +1000
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: "J. Dow" <jdow@earthlink.net>
Cc: Ruth Ivimey-Cook <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.19pre7aa1
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> "Flush" is a well known term of art. And as you note, Ruth, "sync" is
> short for synchronize. Is cleaning up the use of language in the computer
> arts the purpose we are all here?

Andrew makes a good point, even if the humour around it is lost on
Americans. Most people do not understand flush_dcache_page,
flush_icache_page, flush_icache_range, flush_page_to_ram.

Perhaps invalidate_icache_* and writeback_dcache_* would make more sense
but the current functions are so ingrained it would be a hard thing to do.

Anton
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