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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:52:36 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ptep_mkdirty obsolete ?
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To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:37:15 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 16:35, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Hi guys !
> > 
> > This is still used anywhere ? I see that we have
> > __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_MKDIRTY on ppc64 but no actual implementation for it
> > and nobody either uses ptep_mkdirty of #ifdef on the macro...
> 
> Actually, there's a default implementation in asm-generic, I didn't see
> it because a patch from DaveM I'm toying with is removing it ;)
> 
> The fact stays that it's not used anywhere and I'd like to remove it

I totally agree.