On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 01:09:29PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Generally we should export _functionality_, not data. Right, AFAIRC, the main reason for this being an export was because if we hid it in a function, you'd have all those function calls as part of the _PAGE_* macros and that's just crap. And then having an accessor too for the mask which we export anyway is kinda silly. But maybe there's a different, nicer solution which we missed... -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>