Re: __get_free_pages but no get_free_pages?

[Martin Dalecki]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> free_pages() exists.
> __get_free_pages() exists.
> get_free_pages() does not. Why? What's the reason get_free_pages
> always has two underscores at the beggining?

That's purposedly so to discourage the usage of it, since this
function should be considered as an "implementation detail" I think.

> --
> STOP THE WAR! Someone killed innocent Americans. That does not give
> U.S. right to kill people in Afganistan.

That where not just Americans who died there.
The best way to stop a war is sometimes just to win it fast.