Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268730AbUIGXFp (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:05:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268727AbUIGXFo (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:05:44 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:10403 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268730AbUIGXFc (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:05:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:05:24 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Petr Vandrovec Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mark install_page static Message-ID: <20040907230524.GT3106@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Petr Vandrovec , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org References: <2E70CD2670F@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2E70CD2670F@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 18 On 7 Sep 04 at 16:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> Not used anywhere in modules and it really shouldn't either. On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:46:33PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > How are modules supposed to implement vma's populate method > without having install_page available? And yes, there are > out of tree kernel modules which prefer fremap & populate & install_page > over creating several thousands of VMAs to get non-linear mappings. I think this is serious enough to keep the export. -- wli - 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/