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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/05] mm rationalize __alloc_pages ALLOC_* flag names
Nick wrote:
> the downside is that they move away
> from the terminlogy we've been using in the page allocator
> for the past few years.

I was trying to make the names more readable for the rest of us ;).

In the short term, there is seldom a reason to change names,
as it impacts the current experts more than it helps others.

Over a sufficiently long term, everyone is an 'other'. Most
of the people who will have reason to want to understand this
code over the next five years are not experts in it now.

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