From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop "init_mm" from being exported via EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL.
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:02:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080425070247.GB13138@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804241728510.4087@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:31:20PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
>
> ---
>
> since this was listed as removable as of 2.6.26, does that mean its
> removal can go into an appropriate tree now? or would that mean
> *after* the release of 2.6.26?
Davem mentioned this has valid use-cases on non-x86 architectures
because it's exposed through mm macros. So please audit it's users and
make sure the export is only dropped for architectures where it's not
actually needed.
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2008-04-24 21:31 Robert P. J. Day
2008-04-25 7:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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