Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933397AbYAaVGj (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:06:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759007AbYAaVGO (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:06:14 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:34246 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751316AbYAaVGK (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:06:10 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:05:29 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Adrian Bunk Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported? Message-Id: <20080131130529.b0e17815.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080131201430.GA9375@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <20080131201430.GA9375@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 884 Lines: 21 On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:14:30 +0200 Adrian Bunk wrote: > A commit that does nothing except for adding two unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's. > > Without any rationale why they should be exported. Don't look at me. This has been sitting in my tree for nearly two years as part of the reiser4 patchset. It may not even be needed any more. I guess Ingo went on a fishing expedition and liked the change. > And that from a person who on the other hand wants to introduce > (and tries to force on other people) deprecation periods for unused > EXPORT_SYMBOL's. For very good reasons which you perversely and persistently ignore. -- 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/