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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 04:03:24 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: clean up SLAB_KERNEL non-usage
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:40:54AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Use SLAB_KERNEL and SLAB_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC
>> when passing args to slab allocation functions.

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:49:31AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Why?  I'd prefer to completly get rid of the SLAB_ flags instead.
> (stupid slowaris compat..)

IMHO different API, different flags. The inverse is not that difficult
to produce, though.

-- wli
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