>The subject of deprecating and removing the API that permits this came 
>up recently on the Linux Kernel Mailing List.  I raised my concerns, 
>and the Linux Kernel developers have been laudably responsive on the 
>subject.  As I said to them, I would welcome a better API, that allows 
>setting these things atomically, start and length together as a pair.
  Thanks for doing the necessary and often ungrateful work of keeping
kernel developers in check, Jonathan. ;)
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  Laurent
Received on Sun May 20 2018 - 15:57:23 UTC