From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261310AbUBTVRo (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:17:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261333AbUBTVRn (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:17:43 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:61200 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261310AbUBTVRl (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:17:41 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:17:32 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Daniel Phillips Cc: paulmck@us.ibm.com, "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel , linux-mm Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Message-ID: <20040220211732.A10079@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Daniel Phillips , paulmck@us.ibm.com, "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , linux-mm References: <20040216190927.GA2969@us.ibm.com> <200402200007.25832.phillips@arcor.de> <20040220120255.GA1269@us.ibm.com> <200402201535.47848.phillips@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200402201535.47848.phillips@arcor.de>; from phillips@arcor.de on Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 03:37:26PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 03:37:26PM -0500, Daniel Phillips wrote: > It does, thanks for the catch. Please bear with me for a moment while I > reroll this, then hopefully we can move on to the more interesting discussion > of whether it's worth it. (Yes it is :) What about to the more interesting question who needs it. It think this whole discussion who needs what and which approach is better is pretty much moot as long as we don't have an intree users. Instead of wasting your time on different designs you should hurry of getting your filesystems encumbrance-reviewed, cleaned up and merged - with intree users we have a chance of finding the right API. And your newly started dicussion shows pretty much that with only out of tree users we'll never get a sane API.