From: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: add a is_e820_ram() helper
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:53:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1427403214.29730.3.camel@theros.lm.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150326164314.GB23958@lst.de>
On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 17:43 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 05:49:38PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> > > +#define E820_PRAM 12
> >
> > Why the PRAM Name. For one 2/3 of this patch say PMEM the Kconfig
> > to enable is _PMEM_, the driver stack that gets loaded is pmem,
> > so PRAM is unexpected.
> >
> > Also I do believe PRAM is not the correct name. Yes NvDIMMs are RAM,
> > but there are other not RAM technologies that can be supported exactly
> > the same way.
> > MEM is a more general name meaning "on the memory bus". I think.
> >
> > I would love the consistency.
>
> Ingo asked for the PRAM name, I don't really care either way.
I also prefer "E820_PMEM", fwiw.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-26 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-26 8:32 another pmem variant V2 Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 8:32 ` [PATCH 1/3] pmem: Initial version of persistent memory driver Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 14:12 ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Dan Williams
2015-03-26 14:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 21:37 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-03-26 14:52 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-26 15:59 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-26 8:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: add a is_e820_ram() helper Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 9:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-26 9:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 10:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-26 10:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 10:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-26 10:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 15:49 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-26 16:02 ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Dan Williams
2015-03-26 16:07 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-26 16:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 18:46 ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2015-03-26 19:25 ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Dan Williams
2015-03-26 20:53 ` Ross Zwisler [this message]
2015-03-26 22:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2015-03-27 8:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 8:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: add support for the non-standard protected e820 type Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 16:57 ` another pmem variant V2 Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-26 17:02 ` [PATCH] SQUASHME: Streamline pmem.c Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-26 17:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 22:17 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-03-26 22:22 ` Ross Zwisler
2015-03-26 23:31 ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Dan Williams
2015-03-31 13:44 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-26 17:18 ` another pmem variant V2 Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-26 17:31 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-26 18:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-31 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-31 10:25 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 10:31 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 14:21 ` [RFC] SQUASHME: pmem: Split up pmem_probe from pmem_alloc Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 16:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-31 16:08 ` another pmem variant V2 Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-31 13:18 ` [SQUASHME 0/6] Streamline of Initial pmem submission Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 13:23 ` [PATCH 1/6] SQUASHME: Don't let e820_PMEM sections Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 17:16 ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Brooks, Adam J
2015-03-31 13:24 ` [PATCH 2/6] SQUASHME: pmem: Remove getgeo Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 13:25 ` [PATCH 3/6] SQUASHME: pmem: Streamline pmem driver Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 13:27 ` [PATCH 4/6] SQUSHME: pmem: Micro cleaning Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 15:17 ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Dan Williams
2015-03-31 15:24 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 15:30 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-31 15:43 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 19:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2015-03-31 13:28 ` [PATCH 5/6] SQUASHME: pmem: Remove SECTOR_SHIFT Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 13:33 ` [PATCH 6/6] SQUASHME: pmem: Remove "... based on brd.c" + Copyright Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 15:14 ` another pmem variant V2 Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 16:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-31 16:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-31 17:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-31 17:33 ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Dan Williams
2015-04-01 7:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-01 8:06 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-04-01 12:49 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-31 22:11 ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2015-04-01 7:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-02 15:11 ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2015-04-02 16:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-02 18:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-02 18:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-01 19:33 ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2015-04-02 9:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-03-25 16:04 another pmem variant Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-25 16:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: add a is_e820_ram() helper Christoph Hellwig
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