On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 09:57:50PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git proc_create > > > 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.