Re: [RFC] Fix SMP brokenness for PF_FREEZE and make freezing usable for other purposes

Christoph Lameter
2005-06-26T02:55:50Z

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > 4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function
> > calls.
>
> Can you just keep the argument? Rename it to int unused or whatever,
> but if you do it, it stays backwards-compatible (and smaller patch,
> too).

Why do you want to specify a parameter that is never used? It was quite confusing to me
and I would think that such a parameter will also be confusing to others.