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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:30:45 -0800
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 05/11] proc: add helpers to set and get proc hidepid
 and gid mount options

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 7:06 AM Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.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

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