linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add decoder for GFP masks to tools.

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Message-ID: <50EEFC63.6030904@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:37:39 -0800
From:	Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add decoder for GFP masks to tools.

(Sorry Mel, you're getting this twice because I forgot CC's last time)
On 01/10/2013 03:36 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Any particular reason you did not use scripts/gfp-translate?

Because I didn't look hard enough & didn't see it :(

> Script is dumb as rocks, requires access to the source code and does not
> translate flag combinations into something like GFP_KERNEL but it's usually
> sufficient. I'm not pushed either way but if you want to push your tool
> then the patch should also delete scripts/gfp-translate.

No preference. Since we have gfp-translate already in tree, it makes 
sense just to keep using it.


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