From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:38:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040219183821.GA1935@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040219183210.GX14000@marowsky-bree.de>
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:32:10PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>
> A rule of thumb might be whether any code in the tree uses a given
> export, and if not, prune it. Anything which even we don't use or export
> across the user-land boundary certainly qualifies as a kernel interna.
political issues aside, this sounds like a decent rule-of-thumb in general;
if NO module uses it, it is most likely the wrong API (for example obsoleted API left
around) or something really internal.
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2004-02-16 19:09 Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-16 19:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-17 2:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-17 2:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-17 7:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-17 7:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-17 12:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-17 12:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 0:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 0:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 12:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-18 14:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 14:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 21:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 21:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 15:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 15:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 22:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 23:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 23:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-18 16:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 16:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 12:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 12:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 18:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 18:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 19:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 19:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 13:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 13:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 3:17 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-20 3:17 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-02-20 21:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-19 0:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-19 0:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 18:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-18 18:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 12:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 12:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-19 9:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 9:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 18:32 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-19 18:38 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-02-19 19:16 ` viro
2004-02-19 19:16 ` viro
2004-02-19 16:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 16:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 18:59 ` Tim Bird
2004-02-19 18:59 ` Tim Bird
2004-02-20 1:27 ` David Schwartz
2004-02-19 9:11 ` David Weinehall
2004-02-19 9:11 ` David Weinehall
2004-02-19 8:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 8:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-03-04 5:51 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-03-04 5:51 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-19 10:29 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-19 10:29 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-19 9:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 9:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 11:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-19 11:53 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-19 11:53 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-18 18:04 ` Tim Bird
2004-02-18 18:04 ` Tim Bird
2004-02-19 20:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 20:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 22:06 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-02-19 22:06 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-02-19 22:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 22:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 16:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 16:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 2:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 2:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-19 19:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-19 19:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 5:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 5:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 12:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 12:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 20:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 20:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 14:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 14:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 23:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 23:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 16:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 16:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-21 3:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-21 3:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-21 19:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-22 23:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 21:04 ` [RFC] Distributed mmap API Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 21:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 19:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 19:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 19:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 19:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-25 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 22:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 22:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-25 22:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-03 3:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-03 3:00 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-03 3:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-03 3:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-03 13:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-03 13:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-03-04 18:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-03-04 18:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-02-20 21:17 ` Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-20 21:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-20 22:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 22:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-20 23:56 ` GFS requirements (was: Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range) Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-21 3:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-21 14:17 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-21 19:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-22 10:37 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-24 18:26 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-02-18 12:12 ` Non-GPL export of invalidate_mmap_range Dominik Kubla
2004-02-18 12:12 ` Dominik Kubla
[not found] ` <24651326.1077037044@42.150.104.212.access.eclipse.net.uk>
2004-02-18 13:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-17 22:22 ` David Weinehall
2004-02-17 22:22 ` David Weinehall
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