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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Install kernel-page-flags.h
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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.
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