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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/5] zram: Simplify zram disk resizing interface
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:12:49PM -0400, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> On 09/09/2011 07:11 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > "simplify" it in what way?
> >
> > What just got changed, and why, and did it just break any documentation?
> >
>
>
> Its simplification in the sense that earlier we had to be pass total RAM
> size in bytes when setting zram disksize using zram_set_disksize()
> which is not intuitive. The replaced version instead just requires
> the new size to be set which seems to make more sense.

Then why not mention that?

Is there some character limit in the changelog comment section that I
don't know about? :)

Please, be much more descriptive so we have a chance to know what is
going on.

> The first message is no longer required since we now set some default
> value (25% of RAM) instead of zero. So, if user doesn't provide any
> disksize value, we use the default.
>
> The second message really doesn't belong in a kernel driver. That's more
> of a documentation or user commonsense thing. If a user really thinks
> that the data to be written is going to be highly compressible, setting
> zram to such large value makes some sense and there is little point in
> throwing out this big warning in system logs.

Again, put this in the changelog...

greg k-h


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