linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Install kernel-page-flags.h

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Message-ID: <CACVxJT-73diTvBhDxZ=7VUz2BqaRetdnCUGk3hh+_7gyWXB6Dw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:40:36 +0200
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...adia.org>, arnd@...db.de,
	davem@...emloft.net, hverkuil@...all.nl,
	laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mchehab@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Install kernel-page-flags.h

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:26:07AM -0400, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>> Programs using /proc/kpageflags need to know about the various flags.  The
>> <linux/kernel-page-flags.h> provides them and the comments in the file
>> indicate that it is supposed to be used by user-level code.  But the file
>> is not installed.
>>
>> The patch below installs the headers and marks the unstable flags as
>> out-of-bounds.
>
> I don't think this is a good idea at all.  Let's shoot the person who
> added that braindead interface ASAP, and replace it with one printing
> the flags in ASCII format.

ASCII sucks.
This interface is not for humans.
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