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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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