From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] dm: add exports
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:33:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060623153323.GA4848@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060623150011.GW19222@agk.surrey.redhat.com>
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 04:00:11PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:03:53AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Adding twenty new unused exports is rather a big deal. Do you have some
> > new code pending which will use all these?
>
> No - there's code on the horizon which wants to use a few and so I did this
> clean-up exercise to indicate which ones should be used and which ones
> shouldn't. It's no problem delaying the actual exports until they're
> specifically requested, but I would at least like to move the definitions
> into include/linux so people know they are welcome to use them if they wish.
Please dont introduce exports eaarly. I'm also very curious about what kind
of user you have in the pipeline, calling these functions from kernelspace
seems very wrong to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-23 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-21 19:36 Alasdair G Kergon
2006-06-22 4:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-22 13:51 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-06-22 17:03 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-23 15:00 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-06-23 15:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-23 15:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-06-23 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-23 22:15 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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