Re: (patch-2.4.6) Fix oops with Iomega Clik! (ide-floppy)

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Sat, 14 Jul 2001 17:41:46 +0100


hch@caldera.de said:
> Why doe people reverse Jeff's s/malloc.h/slab.h/ changes all the
> time. Malloc.h does nothing but including slab.h and should just die.

"malloc.h" is generic. "slab.h" exposes an implementation detail.

Why should we change code to include slab.h?

Should we also rename other sanely-named include files to expose
implementation details? rwsem-xadd.h? kmod-userhelper.h?

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dwmw2

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