From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:48:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208990882.9212.855.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480FBA73.2090209@zytor.com>
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:38 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >
> > Peter, Ingo,
> >
> > any objections on the patch like that?
> >
>
> Well, I would prefer to try to get rid of them; as you said, most
> userland don't rely on these, and if they aren't used they are just
> namespace pollution, and rather bad such.
Yeah, I'd prefer just to kill them off if we think we can get away with
it. These are hardware-defined flags, not Linux-specific, so userspace
should probably get them from elsewhere anyway.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-23 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200804181856.m3IIuKd4007403@hera.kernel.org>
2008-04-23 2:17 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-23 4:18 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-23 4:59 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-23 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-23 18:26 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-23 18:58 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-23 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-23 22:48 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2008-04-24 3:25 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-24 5:31 ` David Woodhouse
2008-04-24 5:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-24 8:38 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-27 10:09 ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-27 11:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-04-27 11:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-04-27 15:46 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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