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From: Chetan Loke <chetanloke@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:02:23 -0400

> So all user space apps should replicate code when all of that can be
> replaced at the cost of a single for-loop in a non fast-path code
> within the kernel?

When there is a way to do something already, we don't add "yet another"
way to do it.  The kernel already suffers from API masterbation as-is.