On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:30:35 -0600 Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's a matter of taste ... some people prefer to use accessors for > everything, other people prefer to expose the underlying structure > directly. Experience tells us that when you use accessors you end up thanking yourself later on. Especially when diddling struct page ;) Although one really should make a best-effort guess at "how likely is this to change in the future". If the implementation-to-be-copied has been out there for a while then "not very" is a good answer. But hey, don't listen to me - I like C++, and approve of Java. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/