From: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
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Organization: IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] spufs: The SPU file system, base
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:38:16 +0100
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On Middeweken 16 November 2005 06:26, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Why? ?What have you got against MOL? :)
> > 
> 
> The export was moved to mm/memory.c. ? No explanation why though...
> 
Sorry about the lack of explanation. There was a short discussion
about this in August, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/8/205 :

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:42:03 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds wrote: 
> I don't see any reason not to make it global if there are two
> architectures that need it. Especially as long as it's marked GPL-only so 
> that people don't start misusing it.

The __handle_mm_fault symbol is used by spu_base.ko because
the DMA page fault handler calls handle_mm_fault.

Of course at the point where ppc_ksyms.c gets merged into arch/powerpc,
there would again only be one architecture needing it...

	Arnd <><
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