Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 15:38 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > 
> > Peter, Ingo,
> > 
> > any objections on the patch like that?
> > 
> 
> Well, I would prefer to try to get rid of them; as you said, most 
> userland don't rely on these, and if they aren't used they are just 
> namespace pollution, and rather bad such.

Yeah, I'd prefer just to kill them off if we think we can get away with
it. These are hardware-defined flags, not Linux-specific, so userspace
should probably get them from elsewhere anyway.

-- 
dwmw2

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