Re: [PATCH 1/7] Introduce the pagetable_operations and associatedhelper macros.

[Nick Piggin]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:17:40AM -0500, Adam Litke wrote:
>
> > > Also, it is going to be hugepage-only, isn't it? So should the naming be
> > > changed to reflect that? And #ifdef it...
> >
> > They are doing some interesting things on Cell that could take advantage
> > of this.
>
>
> That would be new to me.  What we need on Cell is fixing up the
> get_unmapped_area mess which Ben is working on now.
>
> And let me once again repeat that I don't like this at all.  I'll
> rather have a few ugly ifdefs in strategic places than a big object
> oriented mess like this with just a single user.

I think I agree that we'd need more than one user for this.

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