From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755937AbYDWWsT (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:48:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752105AbYDWWsL (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:48:11 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:54315 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751937AbYDWWsK (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:48:10 -0400 Subject: Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK From: David Woodhouse To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <480FBA73.2090209@zytor.com> References: <200804181856.m3IIuKd4007403@hera.kernel.org> <1208917076.9212.721.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <480F7C11.8040302@zytor.com> <20080423185859.GB7713@cvg> <480FBA73.2090209@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:48:02 +0100 Message-Id: <1208990882.9212.855.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 (2.22.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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