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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Ok, let's start merging this slowly
>
> One week hence, please.  Things like the no-bitmaps-for-the-buddy-allocator
> have been well tested and should go in first.

The first two patches are basically cleanup type stuff and will not affect
the page allocator in a significant way. On the other hand they touch many
files and are thus difficult to maintain.