From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>, Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 09:39:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130909163902.GA28685@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130909134012.GA24738@infradead.org>
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:40:12AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 06:59:45PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Can't we just export the functions for those arches? Surely lutre
> > isn't the first/only driver that needs this?
>
> Lustre is. These are core mm helpers, and lustre uses them to
> reimplement another core VM function. It then uses it to access
> userspace environment variable.
>
> In short all this code should be nuked, and no new symbols should be
> exported.
Ugh, you are right, the lustre code needs to be fixed here.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-09 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-09 1:03 [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA Guenter Roeck
2013-09-09 1:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-09 2:18 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-09 2:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-09 2:38 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-09 2:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-09 2:55 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-09 3:21 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-09 3:38 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-09 2:24 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-09 2:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-09 2:31 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-09 5:01 ` Heiko Carstens
2013-09-10 17:14 ` Peng Tao
2013-09-11 1:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-09-11 2:25 ` Peng Tao
2013-09-11 2:30 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-11 2:51 ` Peng Tao
2013-09-11 16:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-09-11 21:23 ` Dilger, Andreas
2013-09-11 20:48 ` Dilger, Andreas
2013-09-12 8:01 ` Peng Tao
2013-09-09 13:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-09-09 16:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-09-09 17:08 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-09 17:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-09 19:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-09 20:06 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-10 8:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-10 16:44 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-10 16:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-10 17:15 ` Peng Tao
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