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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:54:00 -0700
From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
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Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:28:13PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:00:04AM +0200, arnd@arndb.de wrote:
>> > We need access to some symbols in powerpc memory management
>> > from spufs in order to create proper SLB entries.
>> 
>> One more reason to disallow modular spufs..
> 
> Yeah, what's the need for that, really? It needs to know so much of
> kernel internals that it's getting silly to allow it to be a module.

We never used that feature either...

-Geoff