Re: [RFC] Fix SMP brokenness for PF_FREEZE and make freezing usablefor other purposes

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Sat Jun 25 2005 - 21:57:05 EST


On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > 4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function
> > calls.
>
> Can you just keep the argument? Rename it to int unused or whatever,
> but if you do it, it stays backwards-compatible (and smaller patch,
> too).

Why do you want to specify a parameter that is never used? It was quite confusing to me
and I would think that such a parameter will also be confusing to others.
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