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From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  aio: remove unused function aio_run_iocbs()
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:55:50 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807011355.51049.knikanth@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48691AA2.7050201@oracle.com>

On Monday 30 June 2008 23:10:50 Zach Brown wrote:
> Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> writes:
> >> remove unused function aio_run_iocbs()
> >
> > Seems like it's time to just get rid of it.  See:
> >   http://ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0608.0/0048.html
> > for an explanation of why it's still there.
>
> Yeah, I'm still of the opinion that the cost of having to resurrect it
> if it's needed again isn't significant enough to keep it in the tree
> without callers.
>

Can't this function be kept as part of the out-of-tree patch itself? Or is it 
a module that requires this symbol? I do not see a EXPORT_SYMBOL*() for this, 
so it cannot be a module depending on this func!?

Thanks
Nikanth Karthikesan



  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-26 11:10 [PATCH] aio: remove unused function aio_run_iocbs() Nikanth Karthikesan
2008-06-27 13:15 ` Jeff Moyer
2008-06-30 17:40   ` Zach Brown
2008-07-01  8:25     ` Nikanth Karthikesan [this message]
2008-07-01  8:27       ` Christoph Hellwig

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