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Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:51:01 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] (Resend) Use get_personality()

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:14:03PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
> This patchset makes the macro get_personality function alike
> and teaches code to use get_personality() instead of explicit
> reference.
> 
> [I am sorry if you've received multiple copied of this, since
>  my git-send-email doesn't work well. ]

Yes, but why? "current->personality" is way more understandable than
your macro because task subject to dereference is very visible.
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