On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:26:13AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
This clearly shows how big the effort would be to
introduce access functions.
And if the only gain is grepability then such a
cleanup patch is far more convinient.
It takes minimum effort to create and test, and if you can
get ack from Ted and/or Christoph there is a good chance Linus
would take it right before/after -rc1.
You obviously need to convince him that the patch has
seen decent build testing.
Sam
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