Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754141Ab3IINkR (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Sep 2013 09:40:17 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:33511 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753220Ab3IINkP (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Sep 2013 09:40:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 06:40:12 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Guenter Roeck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Peng Tao , Peng Tao Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA Message-ID: <20130909134012.GA24738@infradead.org> References: <1378688580-11935-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <20130909015945.GA4029@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130909015945.GA4029@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 Content-Length: 671 Lines: 16 On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 06:59:45PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Can't we just export the functions for those arches? Surely lutre > isn't the first/only driver that needs this? Lustre is. These are core mm helpers, and lustre uses them to reimplement another core VM function. It then uses it to access userspace environment variable. In short all this code should be nuked, and no new symbols should be exported. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/