linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: vm86 - hide X86_VM

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Message-Id: <1209026364.9212.978.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:39:24 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: vm86 - hide X86_VM_MASK from userland programs

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 12:35 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> X86_VM_MASK is a kernel specific flag so lets hide it from
> userland programs
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>

Since and there's already an #ifdef __KERNEL__ section later on in the
file, and since X86_VM_MASK isn't used before that, I probably would
have been inclined to shift it down there instead of adding a new
#ifdef.

But maybe I should just stop heckling... :)

-- 
dwmw2

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