Re: why "probe_kernel_address()", not "probe_user_address()"?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:30, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> probe_kernel_address wrapper is used to "hide" the fact that we are
> re-using the infrastructure provided by a function with a confusing name
> ;) The cast to __user is needed to keep sparse quiet.

Shouldn't the above text be placed in a comment above probe_kernel_address()
definition? ;)
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