Re: [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] hugetlb: pagetable_operations API (V2)

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 12:01:55 EST


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*
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