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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:06:51 +1100
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: use is_init()
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Akinobu Mita writes:

> Use is_init() rather than hard coded pid comparison.

What's the context of this patch?  Why is this a good thing to do?

Doing a git grep -w is_init on Linus' current git tree reveals an
is_init() in arch/parisc/kernel/module.c, which looks to be something
different, but no generic definition of an is_init() function or
macro.

Paul.