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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow linker to eliminate unused functions in lib/*
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:51:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100111105141.GA5550@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100110231708.GC4019@discord.disaster>

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:17:08AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Andi, how do you want to handle the overlap between this and the
> list_sort() patch I sent? I'm going to need a list_sort() available
> in the XFS tree well before the 2.6.34 merge window....

Honestly, if Andrew and Linus play with the game I'd just throw in your
patch to move the two indentical list_sort implementations into lib/
right now.  It's just moving stuff around so the normal merge window
shouldn't apply.  This would make life a lot easier for introducing new
users in .34.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-11 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-05 14:59 Andi Kleen
2010-01-09  0:29 ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-09 16:51   ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-10 23:17     ` Dave Chinner
2010-01-11 10:51       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-01-11 14:24       ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-11 22:49         ` Dave Chinner
2010-01-15 23:44     ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-16 11:07       ` Andi Kleen

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