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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:01:07 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:55:54PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Adam Litke wrote:
> > Andrew, given the favorable review of these patches the last time around, would
> > you consider them for the -mm tree?  Does anyone else have any objections?
> 
> I quite fail to understand the enthusiasm for these patches.  All they
> do is make the already ugly interfaces to hugetlb more obscure than at
> present, and open the door to even uglier stuff later.  Don't you need
> to wait for at least one other user of these interfaces to emerge,
> to get a better idea of whether they're appropriate?

*nod*