Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:21:10 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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