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Re: [RFC] pass FAF flag to perfuse



On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:04:41PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Chuck Silvers <chuq%chuq.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > then you shouldn't do that, and instead pass around the userland flags
> > separately from the kernel flags. 
> 
> That means upgrading the kernel/libpuffs ABI just to add the flag.

I support changing the API/ABI to the "pu" and "ru" families of things
in preference to dirtying up the kernel itself to support new features
in them.

Thor


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