From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] (Resend) Use get_personality() Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:16:29 -0800 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:37:31 -0500 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:27:10PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > > Use get_personality() can hide the task_struct internals a bit. > > > > > > ->personality is going to become something less trivial? > > > Sorry, but you sound like C++ people writing tons of pointless get/set > > > wrappers. And your get_personality() is worse -- C++ would write it as > > > > > > current->personality() > > > > > > and again, even here, it's immediately visible that current task is > > > involved, not some other task. > > > > Yes, completely agreement. While I might have introduced this gem > > back then it is entirely stupid if you think about it. Please send > > patches to kill get_personality and just use current->personality > > instead. > > > > yup. > > We'll generally only add wrappers of this form if we need to provide > alternative implementations, or if we expect that we shall do so in the > future. > Ok. I will send a patch to remove it. -- 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/
