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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:59:58 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm counter operations through macros
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Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>  > I don't think the MM_COUNTER_T macro adds much, really.  How about this?
> 
>  Then you wont be able to get rid of the counters by
> 
>  #define MM_COUNTER(xx)
> 
>  anymore.

Why would we want to do that?