Re: Accessor macros vs reference counting

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:16:22PM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Is get_personality() thought to be better than current->personality?  To
> me, the latter seems more meaningful, and I'd rather see it than the former.

I suppose it's possible we might want to move 'personality' out of
'current' one day, and having an accessor macro makes it easier to do
that.  I agree it doesn't seem like a big win though.

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