Re: pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6

["David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>]

BTW, I've sed s/vger.rutgers.edu/vger.redhat.com/

   Wait! You are saying you have a scheme that will prevent writers 
   from writing buggy code that happens to work only on 32Mb i386 ...
   Go ahead, I am all ears :-)

I understand your point, but please understand mine.

One might laugh, but after I read and really considered some of the
points made by the author of "Writing Solid Code" in that book, I
realized that one of my jobs as someone creating an API is that I
should be trying as hard as possible to design it such that it is next
to impossible to misuse it.

Secondly, I learned that I shouldn't be adding API's spuriously
because it will end up being maintained forever, re: the
kern_addr_looks_ok sillyness :-)

So anyways, I was probably being overly anal for this particular case.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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