From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Changes to fs/buffer.c?
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:45:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410291343510.28839@ppc970.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041029133420.76a758b3.akpm@osdl.org>
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Is it ok to export
> > create_buffers() and to make __set_page_buffers() static inline and move
> > it to include/linux/buffer.h?
>
> ho, hum - if you must ;)
>
> I'd be inclined to rename it to attach_page_buffers() or something though -
> create_buffers() is a bit generic-sounding.
Also, I think we should at least start out limiting it to GPL-only usage.
Those page buffers are pretty intertwined with the VM usage, I'd hate to
see people think this is some kind of external interface..
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-29 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-29 14:28 Anton Altaparmakov
2004-10-29 20:34 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-29 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2004-10-29 21:48 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-10-29 21:46 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-11-01 22:42 ` [PATCH 2.6] " Anton Altaparmakov
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