linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 03/17] arch: uapi: asm: mman.h: Let MADV_FREE have same value for all architectures

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Message-ID: <20151113061855.GD5235@bbox>
Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:18:55 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/17] arch: uapi: asm: mman.h: Let MADV_FREE have
 same value for all architectures

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 01:27:53PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 01:32:59PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > From: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@...il.com>
> > 
> > For uapi, need try to let all macros have same value, and MADV_FREE is
> > added into main branch recently, so need redefine MADV_FREE for it.
> > 
> > At present, '8' can be shared with all architectures, so redefine it to
> > '8'.
> 
> Why not fold the patch into thre previous one?

Because it was a little bit arguable at that time whether we could use
number 8 for all of arches. If so, simply I can drop this patch only.
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