Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:48:02 +0100 |
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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
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