linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] Use macros instead of TASK

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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:31:13 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Use macros instead of TASK_ flags

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:24:55 -0400 Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:

> Abstracting away direct uses of TASK_ flags allows us to change the
> definitions of the task flags more easily.
> 
> Also restructure do_wait() a little

umm, spose so.

There's an excellent chance that a millionth of our monkeys will come
along and wreck this diff during the next two months.  In which case
I might end up dropping bits of it, we'll see.

It would be much better if this patch was a series of patches: one to add
the new infrastructure and one-per-subsystem to introduce users of the
infrastructure.  That way I wouldn't have to go mucking around in the
internals of the patch and remembering to tell you when I tossed bits of it
out, and which bits those were.

This shouldn't come as news to an old-timer :(
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