Re: [PATCH 0/8] Cleanup slab.c

From: Matthew Dobson (colpatch_at_us.ibm.com)
Date: 11/08/05

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    To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>
    
    

    Pekka J Enberg wrote:
    > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Matthew Dobson wrote:
    >
    >>Since there was some (albeit very brief) discussion last week about the
    >>need to cleanup mm/slab.c, I figured I'd post these patches. I was
    >>inspired to cleanup mm/slab.c since I'm working on a project (to be posted
    >>shortly) that touched a bunch of slab code. I found slab.c to be
    >>inconsistent, to say the least.
    >
    >
    > Thank you for doing this. Overall, they look good to me except for the
    > bits I commented on. In future, please inline patches to the mail and cc
    > Manfred Spraul who more or less maintains mm/slab.c (curiously, I see no
    > entry in MAINTAINERS though).
    >
    > Pekka

    As there have been many comments regarding the patches (many more than I
    expected! :), I'll resend the whole series later today, and I'll be sure to
    cc Manfred. If he wants, I'll even include a patch to add him to the
    MAINTAINERS file...?

    -Matt
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