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From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:30:45 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 05/11] proc: add helpers to set and get proc hidepid
 and gid mount options
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 7:06 AM Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is a cleaning patch to add helpers to set and get proc mount
> options instead of directly using them. This make it easy to track
> what's happening and easy to update in future.

On a cursory inspection, this looks like it obfuscates the code, and I
don't see where it does something useful later in the series.  What is
this abstraction for?

--Andy