From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261232AbUGLSXY (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:23:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261239AbUGLSXY (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:23:24 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:19154 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261232AbUGLSXT (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:23:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:23:15 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , torvalds@osdl.org, dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: struct_cpy() and kAFS (was: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1) Message-ID: <20040712182315.GA28281@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Geert Uytterhoeven , torvalds@osdl.org, dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040712111120.2094f089.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040712111120.2094f089.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:11:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > David Howells: > > > o kAFS automount support > > > > After this change, all archs need to provide struct_cpy() to make AFS compile, > > while currently only ia32 and amd64 provide it. > > Seems a strange thing to do. Why not rely on the type system? struct_cpy is used nowehre except in arch/i386/kernel/process.c and AFS, so we should probably better kill it before people start using it in other places.