Hi Andrey
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:40:21PM -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:48 AM Sascha Hauer <s.ha...@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:55:48PM -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
> > > In order to allow access to second half of address space on 64-bit
> > > machines, add code that creates /dev/highmem dedicated for that.
> >
> > Very nice series, I applied it right away with the exception of this
> > patch.
>
> Cool, thanks!
>
> > I don't like naming it "highmem" because normally this describes
> > a hardware feature, namely a technique for reaching memory that is
> > outside the CPUs address space. What we have here is a technique for
> > reaching memory that is outside the range of a poorly chosen variable
> > type ;)
> >
> > That said my alternative suggestions are not very striking and range
> > from /dev/mem1 to /dev/uppermem or /dev/mem-upper. Any other ideas?
No good ideas here either.
/dev/mem-upper get my vote as it will sit next to /dev/mem in an ls.
Sam
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