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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:21:10 +0100
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: __get_free_pages but no get_free_pages?
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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.
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