Hello, Michal. On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 02:14:38PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > I would like to see use_hierarchy go away. The only concern I have is > to warn only if somebody is doing something wrong (aka flat > hierarchies). Or better put it this way. Do not warn in cases which do > not change if use_hierarchy is gone or default changes to 1. > An example: > root (use_hierarchy=0) > | \ > | A (use_hierarchy=0) > | > B (use_hierarachy=1) > |\ > C D > > is a perfectly sane configuration and I do not see any reason to fill > logs with some scary warnings when A is created. There will be no > semantical change in this setup When use_hierchy is gone. > > So the only thing I am proposing here is to warn only if something > should be fixed in the configuration in order to be prepared for fully > hierarchical (and that is a second level of children from root with > use_hierachy==0). > > Does it make more sense now?
Ah, okay, so what you're saying is that we shouldn't warn if 0 .use_hierarchys don't make any behavior difference from when they're all 1, right? If so, I have no objection. Will incorporate your updated version. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
