From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752038Ab0AKKwD (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:52:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751532Ab0AKKvw (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:51:52 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:50908 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751247Ab0AKKvu (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:51:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:51:41 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dave Chinner Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow linker to eliminate unused functions in lib/* Message-ID: <20100111105141.GA5550@infradead.org> References: <20100105145917.GA25570@basil.fritz.box> <20100108162930.a011749a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100109165155.GD20773@basil.fritz.box> <20100110231708.GC4019@discord.disaster> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100110231708.GC4019@discord.disaster> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.