Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:40:36 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Install kernel-page-flags.h | From | Alexey Dobriyan <> |
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:26:07AM -0400, Ulrich Drepper wrote: >> Programs using /proc/kpageflags need to know about the various flags. The >> <linux/kernel-page-flags.h> provides them and the comments in the file >> indicate that it is supposed to be used by user-level code. But the file >> is not installed. >> >> The patch below installs the headers and marks the unstable flags as >> out-of-bounds. > > I don't think this is a good idea at all. Let's shoot the person who > added that braindead interface ASAP, and replace it with one printing > the flags in ASCII format.
ASCII sucks. This interface is not for humans. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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