Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:01:47 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] fs/drop_caches.c: make 2 functions static
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:17:46 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:

> This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
> - drop_pagecache()
> - drop_slab()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
> 
> ---
> 
>  fs/drop_caches.c   |    4 ++--
>  include/linux/mm.h |    2 --
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> 32191754eb7aed31406850a082565bc428268a08 diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c
> index 59375ef..e2c6b65 100644
> --- a/fs/drop_caches.c
> +++ b/fs/drop_caches.c
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb)
>  	spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
>  }
>  
> -void drop_pagecache(void)
> +static void drop_pagecache(void)
>  {
>  	struct super_block *sb;
>  
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ restart:
>  	spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
>  }
>  
> -void drop_slab(void)
> +static void drop_slab(void)
>  {
>  	int nr_objects;
>  

This was originally done because Neil said that he planned to use these in
nfsd.  I guess that didn't happen, and an additional patch would be needed
here anyway to do the module exports.  So....  zap.
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