Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:25:27 +0100
From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-mm1: ppc32: too few arguments to function
	'reserve_bootmem'
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [2008-02-04 23:40]:
> We did this wrong.  We should have introduced a new reserve_bootmem_foo()
> and migrated over to that in stages.  Once all callers are migrated, remove
> the old interface.

Well, my original proposal was to add a new function but then someone
complained that we already have too much bootmem functions. I don't
remember if this was on LKML or internally in Bugzilla.

However, sorry, it was my fault of course.


        Bernhard
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