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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] balloon: don't talk about low/high memory when t

To: "Muli Ben-Yehuda" <muli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] balloon: don't talk about low/high memory when there is no such distinction
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:14:19 +0200
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>>> Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx> 24.06.06 16:51 >>>
>On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:26:38PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> .. in order to not confuse people.
>
>This will confuse any tool that parses the output of the file
>though. The ifdefs are also pretty ugly... is the current output so
>confusing?

I did get confused - I imagined 'high' and 'low' to be something entirely
different until I looked at the code in greater detail.

I generally consider tools depending on spelling or other similar things
broken. But of course, this is a personal opinion perhaps based on my
non-Unix/Linux origin.

Jan

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