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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clean up SLAB_KERNEL non-usage
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 04:03:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030215120324.GG29983@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030215114931.A18281@infradead.org>

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:40:54AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Use SLAB_KERNEL and SLAB_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC
>> when passing args to slab allocation functions.

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:49:31AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Why?  I'd prefer to completly get rid of the SLAB_ flags instead.
> (stupid slowaris compat..)

IMHO different API, different flags. The inverse is not that difficult
to produce, though.

-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-15 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-15 11:40 clean up SLAB_KERNEL non-usage William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-15 11:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-15 12:03   ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-02-15 16:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-15 12:34   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-15 12:42   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-15 13:42   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-15 13:45   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-02-15 15:58 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-02-16  1:44   ` William Lee Irwin III

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