On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 08:19:16AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > I want to ask if it is time to start using poorman function overloading > > > with _b_c_e(). There are millions of allocation functions for example, > > > all slightly difference, and people will add more. Seeing /proc interfaces > > > doubled like this is painful. > > > > Function overloading is totally unacceptable. > > > > And I very much disagree with a tradeoff that keeps 5000 lines of > > code vs a few new helpers. > > OK, the curiosity and suspense are killing me. What the heck is > "function overloading with _b_c_e()"? The way I understood Alexey was to use have a proc_create macro that can take different ops types. Although the short cut for __builtin_types_compatible_p would be _b_t_c or similar, so maybe I misunderstood him.
